September 29 is the last day to drop a Part of Term A course without a grade of "W" recorded using the Late Registration request in the Graduate College Student Portal; and the last day to submit a credit/no-credit request for a Part of Term A course in the Graduate College Student Portal. Have questions about registration deadlines or submitting a form? Click here for an advising appointment!

Join us for free food and a workshop designed to help you develop strategies for avoiding burnout in graduate school, held on Thursday October 5th at 5:00 in IGB 612 (the conference room in the basement). Make connections with other students and learn valuable skills. Learn more and sign up at https://forms.illinois.edu/sec/478244111, or invite a friend. This workshop for graduate students is presented by the Counseling Center outreach and funded by the IGB DEI grant.

Ever wondered what plant-based eating is and why we might consider it? Now is your chance to learn! Explore the creative possibilities of plant-based cooking with our fun and inclusive cooking class. Learn to craft delicious, wholesome dishes that celebrate the vibrant flavors and health benefits of plant-powered ingredients. Registration fee: $12 for Students and $20 for non-members.

The Mellon Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies support PhD students in the humanities and interpretative social sciences who show promise of leading their fields in new directions. Fellowships support students at the formative stage of dissertation development, before research and writing are advanced. Fellowships offer a $40K stipend, plus $10K for research, professional development, travel, and mentoring. No citizenship requirements. See the Mellon/ACLS listing in Fellowship Finder for details.

Female-identifying graduate students, come learn about AAUW fellowships! AAUW offers International Fellowships (for international students pursuing a master’s, doctorate, or first professional degree) and American Dissertation Fellowships (for U.S. citizens writing up their dissertations) to applicants in any field of study. There are also Selected Professions Fellowships for women pursuing master’s and professional degrees in select fields. Awards provide up to $25,000, and applications are due November 15. Lunch provided with registration.     

Are you looking for a new way to organize your thesis notes or citations? Programs like Evernote will allow you to store your notes, photos, web clippings, and files in one place. Citation managers, like Mendeley and Zotero, can help organize your citations into bibliographies and store notes and PDFs. You can learn more about these resources on the Library’s website or at a Savvy Researcher workshop.

The Writers Workshop will review genre expectations for diversity statements and provide examples from a range of disciplines. We will share strategies for drafting and tailoring your own diversity statements. This virtual workshop is open to current U of I students, faculty, and staff. Please register with your University of Illinois email account by 11:59pm on 9/25, and we will send the Zoom invitation on the morning of the event.

The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) connects talented and diverse graduate college students, recent graduates, postdocs, and faculty to programs at a variety of research facilities. These mentor-led, learning-based internship and fellowship experiences are key to the recruitment and preparation of the next generation of our STEM workforce. Join this session to learn more about the best-in-class STEM, policy, or technical research opportunity at 20+ federal agencies and open the door to your STEM career in government, industry, or academia! No registration required.

What are interviews like for jobs in industry and nonprofits? What are interviewers looking for? What kinds of questions will they ask? What should I ask? In this workshop, you’ll learn the basics of the interview process, devise a strategy for answering questions, and get examples of questions to ask. No registration required. This workshop will be held in person AND simultaneously broadcast online. Click here to join the workshop remotely.

What can you ask for and how do you ask for it? After you receive a faculty job offer, you have a short period to evaluate it, negotiate and make your decision. In this workshop, you will learn how to develop a strategy to help you know when and how to negotiate effectively. No registration required. This workshop will be held in person AND simultaneously broadcast online. Click here to join the workshop remotely.

Successful postdoctoral experiences are based on intentional conversations, careful planning, healthy work/life integration, professional growth, and career preparedness. The Postdoc Academy has created evidence-based toolkits to support postdocs and their mentors in having productive conversations and acting upon all these topics key to postdoc success. This free toolkit contains short, self-paced activities to develop in areas like setting expectations, giving and receiving feedback, and more. Find Productive Postdoc Conversations at https://www.postdocacademy.org/mentoring/.

Throughout your life you will, almost certainly, give presentations. We have all sat through presentations that were boring, confusing, and drab. How do you communicate your message most succinctly? What visuals will captivate and inform your audience the best? Is it only about your slide design or are there other techniques that leave a lasting impression? In this session we distill the magic that just might take your next presentation from bland to grand.

Infographics can be an effective way to convey small bits of information very quickly, while drawing viewers in due to their visual appeal. In this workshop, we will learn best practices for creating infographics, and explore several free online tools that allow us to create their own infographics, including: Piktochart, Infogr.am, and Visme. The session will end with a practice activity where you are encouraged to use the webtool of your choice.

Trying to figure out how one event fits within the larger picture? Want to find patterns across hundreds or thousands of texts? Unlock the power of studying text on a large scale through this beginner-friendly introduction to text mining. In this workshop, we’ll provide an overview of analytical techniques, identify datasets that you can use for your research, and play with easy-to-use tools for understanding linguistic patterns in text. No prior experience needed!

Are you overwhelmed by organizing your sources? Zotero is a free, open-source citation manager that helps you store and organize your files and insert formatted citations into papers. You will leave this hands-on workshop with a Zotero library set up and ready to use!

This session will give you insight and strategies for getting the most out of Scopus; the largest interdisciplinary database of peer-reviewed literature including journals, books, and conference proceedings, particularly in the sciences. This session will highlight how to find literature about a particular topic, reviewing author details, using article citations to discover more information, and evaluating sources. Attendees will have time to ask individuals questions at the end.Audience: Undergraduate or graduate students in any field.

Are you struggling to keep track of all your sources? Looking for an easier way to cite as you write? Mendeley is a free citation manager that helps you organize your citations, store and annotate your files, and insert formatted citations into papers. You will leave this hands-on workshop with the ability to set up and use your very own Mendeley library!

Our hybrid writing group provides graduate students with dedicated time to make progress on thesis or dissertation writing in a supportive atmosphere. Each meeting consists of a short goal-setting conversation, quiet writing time, and a concluding reflection and wrap-up. Use this time to create or return to a writing routine, make progress and meet deadlines on long-term projects, or jump-start a new writing project. You only need to register once with your U of I email to receive weekly email reminders all semester!

Knowledge of archives and archival research is critical to advanced scholarship. Guest instructor William Maher (University Archivist Emeritus, UIUC) will advise students about sources for locating archival collections, practices, protocols, and the various terminologies associated with archival research. Register using the link below; a Zoom link will be sent to participants directly.

Show off your cooking skills and share your cuisine with the Urbana-Champaign community! Fill out this volunteer information form if you are a student, faculty, or staff member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign or member of the Urbana-Champaign community who would like to cook in the International Cooking Show.

Dance at Illinois will present October Dance 2023, October 12-14 at 7:30pm at the Tryon Festival Theatre at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets are available online at krannertcenter.com. October Dance 2023 features the historic work, Steps in the Street (from Chronicles) by Modern Dance pioneer Martha Graham. Also on the program, premieres by Dance at Illinois faculty, Cynthia Oliver, Alexandra Barbier, Anna Sapozhnikov and undergraduate BA major, Nawal Assougdam. 

CETACEAN (The Whale) is the sixth interdisciplinary performance from Deke Weaver’s The Unreliable Bestiary—a lifelong project representing an endangered animal or habitat. Rooted in a year of student workshops about oceans, whales, eco-anxiety, and interconnectivity, CETACEAN has evolved into a juxtaposition of lo-fi effects, story, video, dance, sound design, and a colossal installation—a plastic sea with plastic whales. It’s gonna be a whale of a show!

Award-winning compositions by Anna-Louise Walton (USA), Louis J. Goldford (USA), and Lina Tonia (Greece) will be performed by the Illinois Modern Ensemble, Carlos Carrillo and Stephen A. Taylor, co-directors. The compositions were selected from 402 submissions for the 27th Annual Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award. The composers will be present for the concert. In addition, Salvatore Martirano’s solo piano work “Cocktail Music” will be performed.

Merz Trio are passionately committed to reshaping the narrative of classical music through vibrantly dynamic programming and wide-ranging interdisciplinary collaboration. Their narrative programming style juxtaposes classical standards, new music, and their own arrangements of familiar and forgotten works, fluidly interwoven and guided with speaking from the Trio’s members.

Come get rowdy with Rory Book & the Volumes for their big debut at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts!! Rory Book & the Volumes are an up-and-coming Swampadelic Cosmic Country n' Blues band based out of Urbana, Illinois.  Playing the same events and stages with acts such as: Billy Strings, Pokey Lafarge, Nathan Rateliff, Smoking Popes, Chicago Farmer, Willi Carlisle, Bobby Bare Jr.

If you only know the taste of ripe bananas, you’ll be surprised by what you have been missing. You are invited to taste some of the yummy recipes with sweet and savory flavors of these fruits - a very versatile staple food in many countries around the globe.Dinner is provided. Paid for by the Student Cultural Programming Fee (SCPF).  

Jasmine Crowe, founder of Goodr, will be the speaker at the fall 2023 Hallene Lecture on Saturday, September 30 in the Illini Union. She will introduce practical ways for implementing sustainability into corporate culture and provide thought leadership on translating technical knowledge and ideas into tangible, caused-based practices. Learn more at go.illinois.edu/JasmineCrowe.

Communities and healthcare professionals need trusted connections to stay informed of emerging advancements in health sciences. Gain research-based insights into complex health issues as researchers from University of Illinois deliver forward-thinking, holistic solutions for addressing today’s health challenges.

As part of our annual Ukrainian Studies Conference, we are hosting two special events that are free and open to the public: Film screening of "The Price of Conflict," October 5, 7:15p.m. at Spurlock Museum, with opening remarks by Film Producer Polina Herman; Piano Recital, featuring acclaimed Ukrainian pianist Pavlo Gintov, October 6, 7:30 p.m. at Smith Memorial Hall, 805 S Mathew Ave, Urbana.

Indian Graduate Students' Association (IGSA) presents "Bollywood Night". A fun-filled event with vibrant performances such as dance, singing, music and stand-up specials to celebrate and embrace Indian pop culture which will be followed by a DJ dance party. So put on your dancing shoes and join us for IGSA's "Bollywood Night at the Illini Union's Courtyard Cafe at 06:00 PM on Saturday, 30th September 2023. This event is open to all students and staff of the university.

The University Library will be hosting two new workshops this week! On Tuesday, September 26 at 3pm is McKinley Sexual Health's "What's Hot? What's Not?" sexual health workshop; different sexual behaviors, techniques, and sexual aids are discussed in this workshop with an emphasis on pleasure & safety. On Wednesday September 27 at 6pm, a virtual credit card workshop will be offered that discusses how to choose credit cards, how to maintain good credit, and more. Please register to attend!

Featuring author of "The Intersectional Environmentalist", Leah Thomas, sustainable fashion designer, Niha Elety, Ecofeminism Trivia, and more, the Summit will explore the intersection of social oppression and environmental justice through a series of engaging events. Participants are eligible for prizes and giveaways including tote bags and menstrual cups! Funding provided by SSC and SCPF

Panel and book discussion with Jamie L. Jones (English), Ryan Griffis (Art and Design), Rebecca Oh (English), Deena Rhyms (American Indian Studies), and moderated by Gillen D. Wood (English, Geology). Registration is required for this event.

In the 2nd event of the Community-Engaged Research Series, Ross Wantland, OVCDEI, and Karen Simms, Trauma & Resilience Initiative, will explore how inequalities and inequity can emerge in community-engaged research and our responsibility as researchers to address it. Participants in this interactive workshop will learn strategies to incorporate principles of equity-minded practices in their work. 

If you or a student you know may need support with their basic needs or financial stressors, please reach out.

McKinley Health Center serves on-campus students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

McKinley Health Center serves on-campus students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.