March 22 is the last day to add a Part of Term B course online via Self-Service, or to drop a Part of Term B course for refund if reducing assessment range; and to submit a form to elect to audit a Part of Term B course. Have questions about registration deadlines or submitting an Audit form? Click here for an advising appointment!

March 29 is the last day to apply for May 2024 graduation via Self-Service. Students who intend to graduate must add themselves to the Degree List. Adding oneself to the Degree List is separate from registration for a convocation or commencement ceremony. Have questions about adding yourself to the degree list? Click here for an advising appointment!

March 29 is the last day to change your curriculum for the current term. This includes adding or dropping a campus approved minor or concentration. Please check your student program information in Self-Service to verify your program information is listed correctly. Information on how to change your curriculum is available online. Have questions about curriculum changes? Click here for an advising appointment!

International students on F-1 and J-1 student visas must be enrolled full time in the Fall and Spring terms to maintain their status. When selecting classes for the upcoming Fall 2024 term, international students should remember that while they may enroll in online courses, only one online course (up to a maximum of three credit hours) may count towards this full-time requirement.

Time tickets for both Summer and Fall 2024 registration will be available for graduate students to view on March 18 in Self-Service. When students are viewing these time tickets, they should also check to see if they have any holds on their account that may prevent registration and follow up with the appropriate offices to get their holds resolved.

Join us for a Beckman Interdisciplinary Safety Seminar. Illinois psychology professor Florin Dolcos will present, "Training Your Brain to Increase Resilience and Well-being." Please register by 5 p.m. Friday, March 22. Pizza will be served to those who register.  

Join McKinley's Nutrition Peers as we debunk long standing nutrition and food myths! Is fruit high in sugar? Is the cholesterol in eggs bad for your health? Learn with us as we discuss the facts and make fresh pasta, chicken, and egg salad for the audience to enjoy! Dinner provided. 

RECHARGE: Rest, Enjoy Conversation and Have A Really Great Experience! Join International Education in our new office space at the University YMCA for hot tea, international snacks, and a comfortable place to relax. Bring a friend and or meet other students from all over the world. Anyone is welcome to drop in between 2-4pm on Mondays in Spring 2024. 

Enjoy some international snacks and drinks with cross-cultural learning activities. Sponsored by International Education and the University Library. 

The Graduate College invites departmental nominations for the Schmidt Science Fellows Program: a 1-2 year postdoctoral fellowship for students in the natural sciences, engineering, mathematics, & computing fields. Established by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, the program allows recipients to pursue a "disciplinary pivot," i.e., recipients venture into a research area distinct from the student's current area of expertise. Annual stipend: $110,000. Applicants must complete their PhDs between May 15, 2024 & June 30, 2025. Visit the Schmidt listing in the Fellowship Finder database for details. 

If you are planning to deposit your thesis this semester, here are a few tips to get a head start! 1) Review our Deposit Checklist, which outlines the steps you need to take in order to deposit. 2) Doctoral students: complete your required surveys! 3) Make sure to add your name to the degree list through Self-Service (the deadline to do this is April 5!).

What are the five most common formatting errors we see in theses? What are release options? How do I deposit my thesis? We've answered these questions and more in our Thesis Format and Deposit webinar. Watch the video and download the slides in our Box folder. Still have questions? Reach out to us at thesis@illinois.edu.

The Graduate College is accepting applications for the Career Exploration Fellowship, which connects doctoral students with campus units for meaningful, mentored work experience. In Fall 2024, each Career Exploration Fellow will receive a paid hourly position at a host unit and a $5,000 Career Exploration Fellowship. This program aims to enable doctoral students to gain experience and build skills that align with a wide range of career aspirations. Applications are due March 18 at 10am. Learn more at https://grad.illinois.edu/career-exploration-fellowship.

Explore the evolving impact of AI on job searching and hiring, leveraging tools like ChatGPT. Delve into the current AI landscape, address challenges, and discover best practices for ethical use in resumes, cover letters, and interviews. Gain insights into employer perspectives and discuss the future of these tools. Join our virtual event on Zoom. Register on Handshake.

Preparing for the academic job market? This workshop will review genre expectations for academic cover letters and provide examples from a range of disciplines. We will share strategies for drafting, strengthening, and tailoring your own cover letters. Please register with your University of Illinois email account by 11:59pm CT on March 19, and we will send an email with a Zoom meeting invitation on the morning of the event.

The Illini Career and Internship Fair is next week! Explore and connect with 90+ employers, eager to engage with talent like you. Open to all majors and class levels. This is the last career fair of the school year, so don't miss it. Registration is encouraged but not required. Visit Handshake to view the list of employers and to register.

Are you preparing for an upcoming conference? Need to design a poster for your class? This workshop will give you tools for communicating your research for academic conferences and professional meetings in a concise and visually effective poster presentation. This event is co-sponsored by Teaching, Learning, and Academic Support, the Writers Workshop, and the Office of Undergraduate Research. 

Web of Science is the widest-scoping, multidisciplinary platform of abstract databases for full-text articles, books, and conference proceedings. This session provides insight and strategies for getting the most use out of the platform. We will highlight how to search for literature and authors, as well as where to find citation tracking data and grant information. Additional features and strategies covered include: the advanced search builder, refining and managing search results, analyzing citations, and unpacking item records. 

Looking for a new way to conduct your research? Tired of getting zero results in your database searches? This workshop will break down how the professionals identify resources, and search for articles, books, and other scholarly works. We’ll cover chasing citations, creating optimal keyword searches, using built-in database functions to improve your searches, and other strategies to make you a more efficient researcher.

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.

Although sampling the work of others has been a natural part of image creation since humans have communicated through art, new AI tools have complicated that conversation. This workshop will look at how these tools are built and discuss the ways that people are using AI generated images to create new bodies of work, streamline their research processes, and beautifully muddy current and future copyright waters. You’ll learn your rights as an image creator, and hopefully have a few more answers about where the machine’s art ends and yours begins. No prior experience with AI or code required!

A manuscript should be evaluated by reviewers based on its quality and scientific merit. However, peer review has been pointed out in literature as a biased system comprised of biased people. This workshop will discuss types of bias in the peer review process such as gender, race, nationality, prestige, and reputation of authors, and share some recommendations to deal with reviewers and their biases.

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 students will learn about best practices for creating infographics and be introduced to several free online tools that allow users to create their own infographics, including: Piktochart, Infogr.am, and Visme. The session will end with a practice activity where participants are encouraged to use the webtool of their choice.

The Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML) holds an extensive collection of primary source material, including 500,000 volumes and 5,000 linear sq. ft. of archival material. This workshop will explore the various ways in which patrons can engage with the RBML’s collection, including individual research, classroom instruction, and opportunities for collaboration. The session will cover the following topics: introduction to the RBML, accessing the collection in person and virtually, classroom instruction, and collaboration opportunities.

The Writers Workshop will review some of the common mistakes regarding punctuation usage, such as comma splices and sentence fragments. We'll include time to review the concept and apply it to your own work. Sign up for one or all in this series to hone your English grammar skills!

Join us to make progress on your writing! Our hybrid writing group provides grad students with dedicated time to make progress on any writing project in a supportive atmosphere. Each meeting consists of a short goal-setting conversation, quiet writing time, and a concluding reflection and wrap-up. You only need to register once with your U of I email to receive weekly email reminders all semester! 

The Doctoral Student Peer Mentoring Program connects students who are new to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with established peers in the doctoral program. The goal is to build a year-round professional and personal support network among doctoral students across academic units on campus. Apply to participate in the peer mentoring program. 

Have you ever had an idea but didn’t have the tools to carry it out? The Grainger Engineering Library Information Center IDEA lab has a variety of technology and tools available to all students at the university. Tools include 3D printers, virtual reality headsets, crafting equipment, and a variety of loanable technology that you can use to develop ideas and explore and learn in new ways. Come see the possibilities that this service offers for you.

This session introduces the podcasting equipment and technology available to our campus community from the libraries. In addition to familiarizing ourselves with the equipment for recording, we will cover some beginning recording and audio editing techniques, particularly within the software Audacity.

This hands-on workshop will teach you how to make common word processing documents accessible for screen readers, and how to make presentations accessible for a wide range of users. We’ll cover MS Word and PowerPoint, Google Docs, and PDFs, as well as general best practices for accessibility that you can incorporate across formats. You’ll leave this workshop with readily implementable strategies and checklists you can start using immediately to ensure your research, teaching, and presentations are more accessible to diverse audiences.

In this workshop, you will learn the basics of Illinois REDCap and how it can be used for the collection of research data, including how to create projects, instruments, and surveys and how to start collecting research data. It is recommended (but not required) that you have a REDCap account prior to attending the workshop. No prior REDCap experience is necessary.

The Education Justice Project is hosting a 4-part series that brings together international and national organizations to explore how legislative, legal, and community action can spur social justice. The fourth panel is on Wednesday, March 27 @ 12:00p CT over Zoom. It will bring together the Illinois Prison Project and Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just, and Inclusive Societies to discuss the importance of legal accessibility, access to justice, and legal empowerment for communities in the pursuit of social justice. The audience will have an opportunity to ask questions after the panel discussion!

The Assistantship Clearinghouse lists assistantships available to graduate students at the University of Illinois. Please note that most assistantships are awarded by academic departments directly to their own students. The clearinghouse lists positions for which departments or other campus units seek additional applicants. Because postings change, please check frequently. Units with assistantship for the summer or fall often post in late spring.

Students from all majors at the University of Illinois are invited to submit their film for consideration in the 15th annual UIUC Student Film Festival on Friday, April 26, at the Spurlock Museum. Your film genre may include drama, comedy, horror, thriller, music/dance/performance video, documentary/travelogue, animation, experimental, or other. The deadline to submit your film is Monday, April 15, by 5 p.m. This event is produced, programmed, and curated by students in MACS 366: Film Festivals. 

Join the WRC and Roger Ebert Center for Film Studies a free screening of "Ovarian Psycos" on Thursday, 3/21 at 6 pm at Spurlock Museum followed by a film discussion on Friday, 3/22 at 3 pm at the WRC. "Ovarian Psycos" is about a new generation of fierce, unapologetic and feminist women of color from the Eastside of Los Angeles who confront injustice, build community, and redefine identity through a raucous, irreverently named bicycle crew: The Ovarian Psycos Cycle Brigade.

The COVID-19 pandemic was accompanied by a massive infodemic, the overabundance of information—some inaccurate—that occurs during an epidemic. This infodemic made it harder for governments and individuals to make accurate decisions that affect public health. In his talk, Dr. Brooks will present the Anti-Infodemic Virtual Center for the Americas (AIVCA). Its goal is to develop tools that pair AI with human judgment to help public health decision-makers and their teams respond to infodemics. Join us for lunch, learning, and conversation at the next installment of the HEROP Speaker Series! 

How are scholars of Black Britain addressing the erasure which Black people across the United Kingdom have faced? Join us for an evening with Caroline Bressey (Geography, University College London), Kennetta Hammond Perry (Black Studies, Northwestern University), and Rochelle Sennet (Music and Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, College of Fine and Applied Arts) as they share their research on Black Britons in a variety of media.

Join QCB as Bin Zhang, MIT, discusses how coarse-grained models enable large-scale simulations of complex biomolecular systems over long timescales, including elucidating the molecular determinants for the stability, internal organization, and coarsening of biocondensates, and their contribution to genome organization. Light refreshments (by room 3151). Also on Zoom.

Please join us for a potluck and a chance to meet the Doctoral Research Support Program team and your fellow doctoral students. All are welcome to bring a dish. We look forward to seeing you there!

Join us at the Cancer & Microbes Symposium on March 29 at Allerton Park & Retreat Center. Hosted by the Cancer & Microbes Working Group and the Microbial Systems Initiative, this event will explore the latest work in cancer and microbe research and opportunities for potential collaborations. Registration closes on March 22.

Make plans to attend the 2024 TiME Day Symposium at the Beckman Institute on April 3, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. This year's event features speakers Sjoerd Finnema, Michael King, Yang Liu, and Gregory Underhill; student presentations; and an awards ceremony. Register here.

Join the Cancer Center at Illinois and the Center for Genomic Diagnostics in a mini-workshop on Diagnostics for Animal Health and Animal Models. The workshop will develop collaborations and research strategies include point-of-use detection of infectious diseases in farm environments and the utilization of molecular diagnostics in animal models to understand cancer biology. Lunch will be provided.

Community-engaged researchers and writers of all levels are invited to join us as Diane Doberneck, Michigan State University, discusses key elements of community-engaged publishing, writing with community partners, unfurling a project into multiple publishing pieces, and strategizing on where to publish your work. The morning workshop will be followed by a networking lunch.

The Illini Union Board's Annual Drag Show is back on Thursday, March 21 at 8pm! Get your tickets now for this exciting event, featuring entertainers from across the country! Doors open at 7:30pm and the event starts at 8pm in the I-rooms. Tickets are $10 for students, $15 for non-students, and can be bought in the Illini Union Quad Shop (open 8am-6pm every day) and the Illini Union Rec Room on the Lower Level (open 12PM-9PM on weekdays and 2PM-9PM on weekends).

On Tuesday, March 26 from 7 - 8 p.m. the League of Women Voters of Champaign County is hosting a Keeping It Local zoom session. Waste management representatives from Champaign, Urbana, and the U of I will be discussing waste prevention & diversion efforts in the community. Come with questions!

This symposium aims to illuminate the ways sports at times facilitates public conversations on past and present societal conditions, whether it is how sports reveal broader issues about culture, identity, or history. View full symposium schedule and mark your calendars for keynote speaker David Maraniss, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, speaking at 7:30 p.m. on 3/28 at Alice Campbell Alumni Center.

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

The University of Illinois Counseling Center provides mental health counseling and well-being education for students. 

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