Are you looking to order merchandise that features Illinois-branded logos and trademarks? All such orders must follow trademark licensing guidance, which you can request through licensing@illinois.edu. Learn more about using any university trademark in merchandise, including but not limited to the Block I, athletics shield, football helmet logo, the University Seal, etc., etc.

Join Nutrition Educator Rachel Mannen and Family Life Educator Emily Harmon for Wellness Walks! On Oct 10th, 9-10 AM, we will meet at Meadowbrook Park (2808 S Race St, Urbana, IL). SidlineMD will be our special speaker! Wear comfy shoes, bring water, and enjoy a stroll. After each walk, there will be a giveaway! Register at: go.illinois.edu/Wellness-Walks

Join us for “Empower and Protect: Self Defense Essentials” as part of Safety Month. This hands-on class will teach you basic moves to boost your confidence and stay safe in any situation. Learn how to defend yourself because your safety comes first! 

Join the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Counseling Center as we partner with Project Heal for an exciting event. We will gather together and travel a path around the arboretum to represent our commitment to supporting students toward disordered eating recovery through psychoeducation, awareness, community, and connection to resources. There will be games, prizes, and people to connect with and gain resources from. Check-in begins at 11:00 am. Event will be from 12:00 pm-1:00 pm.

The Student Affairs Wellbeing Committee invites all students to Illini Wellness Week, a week-long initiative to enhance your wellbeing through our wellness-focused programs and services. Join us at the Wellness Fair on Wed., Oct. 9 at 4-6pm at the ARC Wellbeing Lounge as we kick-off the week. We also welcome the campus community to check out all other Illini Wellness Week events.

Applications are now open for 2025 Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellowships. The deadline to apply is 5 p.m. CST on Monday, Nov. 25, 2024. Three annual postdoctoral fellowship programs that support outstanding scientists at the Beckman Institute offer a unique opportunity for selected scholars to engage in a three-year fellowship of interdisciplinary research at the Beckman Institute. Fellows receive an annual salary and a research budget that can be spent on research activities such as supplies, equipment, and conference and workshop travel. Learn more at the link above.

Correctly formatting the title page of your thesis can be a challenge. Let us help! If you plan to graduate in December, submit your title page to the Thesis Office for review. We will check the formatting and your degree information to make sure you are on track! Just upload a copy of your title page on our website.

How can you create a powerful resume for your job/internship search in industry or the nonprofit sector? How can you make sure your cover letter gets noticed? In this online workshop, you will learn basics about how to prepare and format your application materials and how to best integrate your skills and experience into each document, and tips for how to explain your graduate school experience to make a strong impression with employers. To join, visit https://go.grad.illinois.edu/eventspace

Join a collaborative group that will help you figure out what matters to you and offer support as you explore new paths that align with your values, skills, and interests. This 3-week group will involve hands-on exercises and rich conversation designed to guide you in claiming agency in your next steps. Open to grad students and postdocs in any field whose work involves humanistic inquiry. Learn more and register here.

Google Scholar is an incredibly popular and useful tool for research with several features that scholars may not be familiar with. This workshop will elaborate on the difference between searching in Google Scholar and academic databases, demonstrate how to use Google Scholar’s Advanced Search, explain how to connect your library access to Google Scholar, and cover some of the other more sophisticated features Google Scholar offers to support your research. We will also discuss some of the privacy concerns related to Google and how you can mediate them.

Interested in free and openly licensed textbooks (OER) for your students? Come and learn where to find them, how to create them, and how and when to apply for a grant of up to $10,000 from the Library to make OER.

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!

Need support for your oral defense or conference preparation? Enroll in ESL 593 Academic Presentation Skills, a 7-week course, to receive personalized feedback on presentation style during authentic practice opportunities. Develop skills in explaining research, adapting to various audiences, and giving/receiving feedback. Class sessions start October 22nd. Limited seats available—register now!

Join us weekly to work on your projects! 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! 

Director of Illinois Computes Chuck Thompson lays out the next steps for the growing program in a statement to researchers, "The Evolving Vision for Illinois Computes: Enhancing Research Access Across All Disciplines." Thompson explains how the campus program will move forward with simplifying and improving the overall experience, building awareness and diversifying computing and resource offerings to meet the needs of researchers.

Are you ready to consider your course learning objectives in a new light? This workshop presents a framework for creating design challenges that address course objectives and offer students authentic design experiences. This framework can also be used to explore potential project topics and create human-centered design prompts. All instructional backgrounds are welcome!

This interactive session shares best practices for inclusive, responsive, reflective, and adaptive mentoring in a research context. Through individual reflection and collaborative analysis of case studies, participants will begin to define their own mentoring philosophy. This session fulfills part of the training requirement for the Graduate College Mentoring Certificate. You can join in person (Graduate College, 507 E. Green St., Champaign) or on Zoom (https://go.grad.illinois.edu/eventspace)

Mediaspace (mediaspace.illinois.edu) is a YouTube-like service that allows U of I people to post and share videos, and you can use it to promote your research, for teaching, or outreach. Now, Zoom meetings you record to the cloud go directly into Kaltura! You can publish your media broadly or selectively. You can upload videos you've already made, or record directly online, edit your videos, and add captions, too. We will cover what you need to know to get started publishing with Kaltura, and follow up with consultation for your specific projects.

NVivo is a desktop software for analyzing qualitative data, including text, image and video, and survey data. With NVivo, you can code data by hand or automatically using keyword searches. In addition to coding data, you can view the results of your coding in different configurations, write memos about your developing analysis and create concept maps. In this workshop, we’ll discuss how to create an NVivo project, add data, code text data, and view the results of coding in multiple configurations. We’ll also talk through methods of collaboration using NVivo. 

This session will cover conceptual design, storytelling techniques, and scriptwriting. Our goal is to set a strong foundation to help researchers understand communication in this popular, innovative format. We will have four subsequent sessions that go into more depth, but this first workshop is paramount to getting started! Part 1/5

This interactive workshop will use practical applications of two AI tools—Microsoft Copilot and Perplexity AI. These tools support your research process, offering intelligent assistance with brainstorming, refining ideas, finding sources, and enhancing your writing development. While AI can provide invaluable support, it won’t replace your critical thinking or authorship; it will not do your academic work. Instead, you will learn how to use these tools to efficiently gather insights, structure arguments, and streamline your research workflow while honestly maintaining academic integrity.

In this introductory workshop, we will be learning about basic 3D Printing modeling with TinkerCAD. We will provide a walkthrough and activity with this software. After registering, please create a TinkerCAD account. TinkerCAD is a free browser-based software that we will be using in the introductory 3D design workshop. Choose the “Create a personal account” option for this workshop and follow the registration steps.

Adobe InDesign is a layout and design software program that allows you to create print and digital media. It is part of the Adobe Creative Cloud, which is available to all Illinois students for free! This workshop is designed for those with little to no experience with InDesign to help you learn the basics of using this document design program. During the workshop, we will create a sample flyer. You will gain experience navigating the features and there will be time to explore.

Learn how to use NCSA's Delta supercomputer. In this virtual workshop, attendees will learn about Delta's advanced architecture designed to support a wide range of scientific domains, particularly those that benefit from GPU acceleration such as machine learning. Hands-on exercises will teach how to access Delta, manage the user environment, and run jobs and software. Registration required.

Registration is now open for the 2025 Student Success Symposium to be held Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. Join in the ongoing discussion about what our campus is doing and will do to bolster retention and graduation rates, close equity gaps, and enhance the Illinois experience for our students. The deadline for registration is January 30, 2025.  Register for the Student Success Symposium online.  

The HRI Organize & Analyze: Social Movements Reading Group will hold a series of discussions on the book Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and A New Path Toward Social Justice by Bill Fletcher Jr. and Fernando Gapasin Mon. Oct 7, 14, and 21. On Oct. 21, Bill Fletcher Jr., long-time labor activist, Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies, former president of TransAfrica Forum, and founding member of the Black Radical Congress, will join us for a Q&A. Lunch will be provided. RSVP at the link above.

Join Spurlock Museum staff as we explore sex and gender representations in the ancient world and how they're treated in museum spaces. Take a guided tour of the galleries, get a closer look at some of the artifacts, and enjoy some cupcakes. 

October Dance 2024 reactivates dance history, honoring masterworks of the past in a contemporary context. The concert features work by José Limón (staged by Associate Professor Roxane D’Orléans Juste), Merce Cunningham (staged by Associate Professor Paige Cunningham Caldarella), as well as a new work by Teaching Assistant Professor Rachel Rizzuto, and Undergraduate senior Tessa Olson. Livestream available on Wednesday, October 9

Join us for the iCU (Now I See What You Mean) Intercultural Dialogue Series, where stories and flavors come together to celebrate Latinx/Hispanic heritage. This unique series offers a platform for international and domestic students and the campus community to connect through learning about their personal cultural journeys. We'll journey through the rich culinary traditions of the Andean region, starting with Colombia and Ecuador (Sept 25) traveling through, Peru (Oct 2), and making our way to Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina (Oct 9). Dinner is provided, and everyone is welcome to attend.

Take a break from your research and join our Graduate Student Third Space @ IGB for some pizza to learn more about our programming and for helpful on-campus resources available to graduate students. No IGB affiliation required. ALL graduate students are welcome! 

Dear friends and affiliates, you are invited to be at our CGS and LAS-Global Studies Fall 24 Reception! Mark your calendars and make it a priority to be with us. It will be a wonderful time and we are looking forward to seeing you!

Celebrate Illinois REDCap, a no-cost browser-based tool for collecting both high risk and non-high risk data used by more than 900 faculty, staff, and students at Illinois! Have breakfast, meet other REDCap users across campus, and learn how Illinois REDCap is being used to meet a variety of data collection needs across campus in both research and administrative settings. Register by Oct. 15.

NCSA will host the Machine Learning and Big Data workshop presented by the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, This workshop will focus on topics including big data analytics and machine learning with Spark, and deep learning using TensorFlow. Visit the event description for more details.

Want to learn the "how" of being a leader? Come to the Illinois Leadership Center's Weekly Workshop series! Covering skills like conflict management and communication, every week there is something new to learn for the leader you want to be. Open and free to all students, workshops are also available by request for your team or RSO. 

Athletics, Facilities & Services, and iSEE are teaming up once again for two tailgate recycling events this football season. Tailgaters, do your part by recycling plastic bottles & aluminum cans in containers located in Lot 31 & Grange Grove. Volunteers are needed for the Saturday, Oct. 12, and Saturday, Nov. 16 game days. Sign up to participate through the Volunteer Form.

This event is for graduate students in the humanities and related fields. Space is limited and registration is required (see the link below). Join Mary Ton, Digital Humanities Librarian, for dinner and discussion at the HRI about how to engage with AI ethically and effectively in your research and teaching through beginner-friendly tools. Along the way, we’ll consider AI’s limitations as well as its potential to improve accessibility and to promote critical engagement with humanities material.

All Student Organizations (RSOs) are invited to sign up for the Illini Union's Trick-or-Treating event! Clubs can distribute information, giveaways, and candy to students, as well as participate in the custom contest. Register your RSO before Monday, October 28.

Join us at Riggs Beer Company next Sunday (10/13) at 2:30 pm to hear Erinn Dady discuss Native Plants and the Ecology they support! Hope to see you there!

The Education Justice Project's Policy & Research Team is hosting a research group meeting on Oct. 14th, 3 to 4pm CT via Zoom. Join us to hear from Mark Zablocki about his current research, Special education services in juvenile and adult correctional facilities: Failed policies and procedures in the carceral state. All are welcome! You do not need to be an EJP member to attend.

Indigenous Peoples’ Day is Monday, October 14. To commemorate this day, the Native American House (NAH) will deliver a series of programs that center on intersectionality. This framework helps us understand several aspects of identity and a diverse set of issues relevant to Indigenous communities. Programming will occur at the Spurlock Museum of World Cultures and the Native American House. Indigenous Peoples’ Day programming is open to the public: https://nah.illinois.edu/events/indigenous-peoples-day

Harry Boyte is a civic organizer and theorist of the public work framework of citizenship. Boyte has authored eleven books on democracy, citizenship, and community organizing. Marie Ström is co-founder and Director of Education and Training at the Institute for Public Life and Work. Originally from South Africa, for twenty years she directed the democracy education program at the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa). In partnership, Harry and Marie now organize workshops on democracy, citizen professionalism, and non-violence. Free lunch provided.

Have you ever felt down or bored and weren’t sure how to “put yourself out of it?” Join us for an interactive session and learn how nature and socializing can boost your health and wellbeing. We’ll focus on practical strategies for enjoying nearby nature and socializing, which will be informed by current research and practice on these topics. Presenters: Leslie Camarillo and Damien Cavanaugh

Please join us at noon on Tuesday, October 15, in 5602 Beckman to learn an overview of key technologies that constitute the Stellaris platform, multiphoton microscopy and tunable spectral detection with our DIVE systems, and recent advances in our STED systems with Ken Calderone. Lunch will be provided to those who register. Please register by Thursday, October 10.

Join QCB Seminar in person or online to hear Lingyan Shi, UCSD, tell about a platform that equips researchers to quantitatively visualize molecular events, offering tools for early-stage disease detection, drug delivery/resistance assessment, as well as fostering a deeper mechanistic understanding of the fundamentals of aging biology and related diseases. Refreshments beginning 1:30 p.m., Beckman 3151.

This lecture assesses the current state and possible future trajectories of globalization in light of the current era of the Great Unsettling. Are we witnessing a nationalist turn toward deglobalization or a new moment of reglobalization? Professor Steger provides a timely and transdisciplinary appraisal of globalization at the crossroads.  Manfred B. Steger is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. He was an academic consultant on globalization for the U.S. State Department and an advisor to the PBS television series, Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism.

Join us for the Latine Studies Graduate Student Conference "Reclaiming Insurgency." The conference will feature interdisciplinary graduate research and keynote speakers Joshua Briond and Akua N. Learn more and register at the link above.

From 1918 to 1922 as many as 40,000 Jews were killed in the pogroms of the Russian Civil War. The mass violence in Ukraine was part of a global phenomenon of ethnic and racial violence, which also included the Armenian genocide, and anti-Black violence in the United States. This book talk examines the Yiddish and Russian literary response to the pogroms and the relief effort, exploring both the poetry of catastrophe and the documentation of catastrophe and care. Light refreshments will be provided.

Please join the University Archives for the Women in Science Lecture Series on Wednesday, October 9th, 12:00-1:00 pm, with Dr. Jennifer T. Bernhard, Department Head and Donald Biggar Willett Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering! This is a hybrid event and will take place in the University Archives (146 Main Library) or you can register for the Zoom link.

The Doctoral Research Support Program (DRSP) is hosting a Dissertation Writing and Research Roundtable on Thursday, October 17, from 2-3pm, on Zoom. This panel is for early-stage doctoral students and will cover practices surrounding research, writing, and time management. Miguel Avalos (Sociology), Lauren Harris (Chemistry), Nicholas Kowalski (Physics), and Jon Petty (Urban and Regional Planning) will share about strategies that work for them--or, conversely, strategies that definitely have not worked. This is an excellent opportunity for a multidisciplinary exchange of writing practices.

Please join us for a lecture by J. David Velleman, the Miller Research Professor in Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. In “A Method for Metaethics,” Velleman considers the question “What turns a fact into a reason for acting?” but he doesn’t answer the question; rather, he proposes a method for finding the answer.

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.