Chancellor Robert J. Jones provides university updates, announcements and resources from the past week. 

UIUC Zoom members may now use Zoom’s built-in live transcription feature free of charge and with no time restrictions. This feature allows for real-time transcription during meetings, and must be enabled in the user settings. The feature is in beta testing and some users may still need to purchase a separate Otter.ai license to meet accessibility accommodations. Instructions in the link above.

The Library’s new catalog launched this summer. It offers the discovery (or, ability to search) and delivery of the Library’s collection of scholarly resources through an enhanced single search interface. Also, the new catalog supports Single Sign-on, so university patrons are able to use their NetID and NetID password to access their account and request materials. Feedback welcome at link above.

The draft Summer 2020 list is now available at go.illinois.edu/lotrae.  If your course is missing, check your instructor report against the criteria in the draft list. At least 5 students must have completed relevant item(s) and you must have released your sections for inclusion on the list. For questions or corrections, email ices@illinois.edu or call 244-3846.

The Graduate College and its student advisory group, SAGE (Students Advising Graduate Education), invite nominations of graduate students who have exhibited outstanding service that has positively impacted the campus or wider Urbana-Champaign community. The winner will receive a $500 award dispersed as professional development travel funds. Nominations are due Sep 27, 2020.

University of Illinois Extension is now accepting applications for the 2020 Extension Collaboration Grants, which support applied research and outreach collaborations between UIUC investigators and Extension professionals on critical issues in Illinois. Applications are due by September 30, 2020 at 5:00 PM Central. View full Request for Proposals.

Intermezzo cafe is now open for walk-up, to-go orders only, Monday through Friday from 8am to 3pm. Many popular daily specials are available. For safety considerations, eating and drinking is not allowed at any location in the Lobby at this time. 

The Secretary of State Mobile Services has canceled the college mobile visits through the end of the year. 

The recipients of the 2020 Civil Service Employees and Dependents Scholarship Program Fund in Honor of Marjorie Beasley are now posted on the Illinois Human Resources website! Congratulations to all the recipients.

Register now for our financial wellness serieis. This series deals with managing finances during the COVID era. Each virtual session meets on Wednesdays at noon starting September 16. To sign up or learn more go to https://www.cvent.com/events/multiple-one-hour-sessions-at-university-of-illinois/registration-41290055cc2a43c3bafa29087b393252.aspx?fqp=true

Does your research and teaching include the intersection of the humanities and arts with technology? Faculty, staff, and students with an interest in digital scholarship and pedagogy in the arts, humanities, and social sciences are invited to join the university’s DH community email list. All subscribers are welcome to submit news, announcements, and queries to the list.

Do you need help with data, troubleshooting your code, or understanding your analysis?  Consulting and training workshops are open to campus for the following software programs: Stata, SAS, ATLAS.ti, SPSS, R, Python. All services are free and offered in partnership with CITL, the Library Scholarly Commons, and Tech Services. For open hours and workshop registration, visit our website.

ORCID@Illinois provides all members of the campus research community with an easy way to obtain an ORCID iD and link it to their Illinois identity. ORCID iDs are unique, persistent identifiers that are being increasingly requested by funding agencies, publishers, and professional associations worldwide. Whether you need an ORCID iD or already have one, get connected at ORCID@Illinois!

Register your bike in a national database. This semester, the campus transitioned the existing bicycle registration process to Project 529's system, which can broadcast a “Missing Bike Bulletin” to the 529 community and social networks to assist with recovery efforts. Bicycle registration is mandatory for all bikes parked or operated on campus. For more details, https://go.illinois.edu/mybike.  

Get Fresh! is a seasonal program that increases the availability, accessibility, and consumption of fresh produce on campus. Get Fresh! is cost-effective for all UIUC members. It's sponsored by Student Wellness, McKinley Health, and Student Sustainable Farm. Participants will pick up a Get Fresh! tote of fruits, vegetables, recipes and other resources at the ARC Instructional Kitchen on Tuesdays. 

Attend C3.ai DTI's "Epidemics, Opinion and (Mis)Information: The Analytic Foundations of Dynamics over Networks" free workshop! Hear experts from Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, UC Santa Barbara & Yale discuss how epidemics & opinions spread through various networks. From human contact to communications, come explore how "info dynamics" influence perceptions & shape behavior.

C3.ai DTI's Digital Transformation Science Colloquium series features weekly talks from researchers who accelerate AI to mitigate COVID-19. Join us on Zoom this upcoming Thurs. (9/10) at 3:00 p.m. & hear from Princeton Professor H. Vincent Poor on Evolutionary Adaptations and Spreading Processes in Complex Networks. Register + more information here!

Sign up your department or unit for our campus-wide physical activity challenge. Work areas form teams and compete to see which team can average the most physical activity. This is a great way to be more active and bond with your colleagues. The challenge starts October 5. To learn more or sign up email us at wellbeing@illinois.edu

Pandemics in History will place the COVID-19 pandemic in a broader historical context that illuminates how past societies understood and responded to the spread of epidemic diseases, and will highlight how our knowledge of epidemics has been informed by modern humanistic and scientific research collaborations. Guest speakers include Dr. Antoinette Burton, Dr. Carol Symes and Dr. May Berenbaum.

“Modeling the COVID-19 epidemic is not rocket science—it’s harder,” notes CAS Physicist and Swanlund Prof. Nigel Goldenfeld, who has helped state officials predict the spread of the pandemic. Clearly, the best methods we have for managing the pandemic are guided by mathematics. This lecture will delve into how these predictive mathematical models are developed, verified, and assessed for accuracy.

Please join Andrea Stevens, Associate Professor of English, and the EU Center for a lecture on racial masquerade at the English Caroline court. What might appear to be a ‘transgressive’ convention destabilizing ideas about the fixity of whiteness was anything but, and Dr. Stevens will show how this convention promoted a conservative mythology idealizing chastity and marital love. Zoom info here.

The MBM Program begins its Frontiers in Miniature Brain Machinery lecture series for the Fall semester with Marianne Alleyene, Assistant Professor of Entomology & Integrative Biology at the University of Illinois. She will speak on “Bioinspired Design: Insects Did It First – How Best To Learn From Them.” The lecture is free and open to the public on Zoom.

The Beckman Institute will host its Director’s Seminar at noon Thursday, Sept. 10, with presentations on research relating to COVID-19. Join Graduate student Nick Angello, chemistry, and postdoc candidate Mayank Garg, materials science and engineering, as they present their research. Titles, abstracts and biographies are online. Registration is required for Zoom access: go.illinois.edu/DirSem.

Join us for the University of Illinois Archives’ inaugural Women in Science Lecture! Dr. Kathryn B. H. Clancy, Associate Professor of Anthropology, will join us to talk about her research as a biological anthropologist and intersectional feminist biologist. Please register to receive the zoom link.

Discover the latest research, technology, and industry data from the University of Illinois College of ACES. This year, virtual presentations will replace in-person tours. Over the next four weeks, a new tour will be released weekly on the Agronomy Day Website with topics spanning pest management, specialty crops, sustainability, digital agriculture, crop production, and nutrient management.

Faculty members are encouraged to share information about the Responsible Conduct of Research series with their students and postdocs involved in research. In the first session, Patty Jones, Beckman's associate director for research, will give an overview of the series, which continues on most Tuesdays. Registration is required for Zoom access.

Join DRES and the ADA Division of the Office for Access and Equity as we host our first virtual brown bag seminar of our yearlong celebration of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) turning 30. We will answer your top ten questions about services we offer and address the questions that you want answered about accessibility and inclusion in the time of COVID-19. Registration Form.

Indiana University East Asian Studies Center and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies are pleased to announce the IL/IN Consortium National Dissertation Workshop on “Social and Racial Relations in East Asia Yesterday and Today” on October 15, 2020. The workshop is to present broader East Asian contexts. Deadline: Friday, September 11, 2020, 5 pm CDT

The William W. Hay Railroad Engineering Seminar Presents: Innovations in Track Inspection – The Use of 3D Laser Sensing and AI to Detect Changes in Track Condition by Richard Fox-Ivey, Railmetrics. Join us online by registering at railtec.illinois.edu/events/hay-seminar/.

Write a stronger National Institutes of Health individual investigator proposal with this 6-week webinar series. Faculty with a history of NIH proposal success will lead the webinars and offer advice on various aspects of the funding process. Attend all the webinars or just those that meet your needs. Open to all Illinois investigators, but you must register for Zoom details.

Most people find that there are some days when it’s hard to find the motivation to accomplish what needs to be done, even those things that are important. This session is for those times when it just seems hard to “get going” and will help you learn how to give your enthusiasm a boost. Register Here.

Looking to offer training, workshops, or non-academic courses to those outside the University? Then join us via Zoom the third Tuesday of each month at 3:00 to learn and share your experiences! This month, we’ll hear from Webstore and eText@Illinois about a system they have developed to create accounts, accept payments, and enroll participants into an e-book.

Campus and community members are invited to discuss the U of I’s current energy portfolio, its greenhouse gas reduction objectives, and the possibility of improving both with micronuclear reactors. Join iSEE, F&S, micronuclear experts, and faculty and student sustainability leaders to discuss this new technology as well as safety and waste disposal. Time will be available for audience Q&A.

If you form teams in your courses, please take our survey and earn $20! Participation will take ~15 min. Your responses will broaden understanding of how criteria-based team formation is used in actual classrooms, and help improve team formation tools for future users and students. Please share with colleagues who form teams in their courses, so that we can capture as many experiences as possible.