The Office of the Provost provides limited funding assistance to tenure-line faculty who are interested in participating in NCFDD’s Faculty Success Program. Up to 8 recipients (5 pre-Tenure & 3 post-Tenure faculty) will be selected to receive matching funds. Full-time, tenure-line faculty members at Illinois are eligible to apply. Applicants may receive these matching funds only once.

Sinfonia da Camera presents "Chamber Cornucopia!" on Tuesday, April 19 at Smith Memorial Hall, 7:30pm. Pianist, Ian Hobson performs works by Robert Schumann with Sinfonia's principal musicians including Bernhard Scully, horn, John Dee, oboe, J. David Harris, clarinet, Csaba Erdélyi, viola, and Ko Iwasaki, cello. This is a free event! Bring your friends & family and please come support live music. 

The CQI Community Group's annual conference is a capacity building and networking event. It's an opportunity for people from a variety of professional backgrounds to explore strategies for developing, managing and participating in CQI efforts that lead to better outcomes for children, families and communities. We invite you to submit a proposal. 2022 CQI Conference RFP

The Personalized Nutrition Initiative is announcing a second call for seed grants, with the potential to provide new transformative innovations or solutions; up to $50,000 each. We are also partnering with the Center for Social and Behavioral and Science to encourage collaboration among personalized nutrition scientists, social and behavioral scientists. Visit our website for details.

Allerton Park and Retreat Center is taking applications for the fall session of its Fall Artist-In-Residence program. Recipients stay for two to six weeks at the park and explore ideas for their craft while immersing themselves in nature. A stipend is included. Writers, photographers, painters, videographers, and others are welcome to apply. Apply by April 30. More information can be found here.

Tenure-line faculty in the humanities/related fields: apply for HRL funds to refashion an existing undergraduate course into a local community-based research experience rooted in collaborative partnership with community organizations/leaders. Apply by June 1. Zoom info session on April 25 (register to attend).

OneOP Nutrition and Wellness is offering this free webinar "Recent Advances in Sustainable Diets and Nutrition".  Registered Dietitians earn 1.0 CPEU.  RSVP at https://oneop.org/event/117026/.

Reservations are filling up quickly for ICS Labs. Make sure to reserve your space now for Fall22. Check out our newest lab location, room 328 at the Armory. You can also reserve our Nevada Lab for your Zoom needs. 

The Food Assistance & Wellbeing Program is requesting support. Donations are needed for our food pantry or units can host a food drive. Check out our website for a list of food items and instructions for hosting a food drive. Your consideration is appreciated and would greatly support our campus community. 

The last scheduled Program Leader Safety and Best Practices Workshop for spring 2022 is April 22.  The Workshop prepares faculty, staff, or graduate students for responding to emergenices. Those who lead, or assist leading, education abroad or other travel abroad for students must attend one workshop a year.  Visit the International Safety and Security calendar to register.

"’63 Boycott" from Kartemquin Films tells the story of 250,000 Chicagoans who fought for racial equity in schools and how the struggle continues. There will be a Q & A with filmmakers Gordon Quinn and Rachel Dickson; Adrienne Dixson, Professor & Coordinator, Social Science and Education Policy at Illinois; and Imani Bazzell, a local parent and Unit 4 activist. Trailer at 63boycott.kartemquin.com/.

Join Navneet Garg, program manager at the Federal Aviation Administration’s William J. Hughes Technical Center, as he presents via Zoom at the Spring 2022 Kent Seminar Series Thursday, April 21, from 2-3 p.m. (CT). Pizza and soft drinks will be provided beginning at 1:30 p.m. in the ICT Classroom. We hope to see you there!

Facilities & Services wants your input on developing the Campus Landscape Master Plan (CLMP) during an online public forum on Wed., April 27, at 5:30 p.m. The CLMP strives to address grand challenges, including carbon neutrality, passive recreation, stormwater management, and mental health and wellness. The project team will also present design concepts and gather feedback. Sign up here. 

The ISUR Research Expo is on April 21, 4-6PM, in Illini Union rooms A, B, C. It showcases undergraduate researchers’ science and engineering projects. Students from ISUR, the Clare Boothe Luce Research Program, DaRin Butz Foundation Research Program, C3SR-Undergraduate Research in Artificial Intelligence, and the ALERT Program in Electronic and Cyber Security will present their posters.

The Chancellor’s Medallion will be presented in recognition of contributions made by Reuben G. Soderstrom (1888-1970) to the labor movement and in the creation of the labor school at the University of Illinois. The university community is invited to join Chancellor Robert J. Jones and LER Dean Fritz Drasgow at a ceremony and reception. RSVP https://forms.illinois.edu/sec/1508260617

Saturday Engineering for Everyone is a free lecture series aimed at non-engineers who are interested in learning about engineering topics. The next lecture will be Saturday, April 23 at 10:00 am in-person at the Grainger Auditorium (ECEB 1002). The lecture is titled “What is a Qubit? – An Introduction to Quantum Computing” by Assoc. Professor Eric Chitambar. For more info, visit our website.

Hyunjoon Kong, a Robert W. Schaefer Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Pathology as well as a Co-Principal Investigator of the MBM Program, will lecture on “Engineering neuron-innervated muscle by decoding cross-talk between neuron and muscle” in 2269 Beckman Institute and on Zoom. The lecture is free and open to the public courtesy of the Miniature Brain Machinery Program. 

This year's Undergraduate Research Week (URW) will be a combination of virtual and in-person presentations hosted by individual departments, units, and programs. The Symposium will be held in person in the Illini Union. URW: April 24-April 30 (with a few events the week preceding). Symposium: Thursday, April 28, from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm.  Program can be found here.

The National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA) Walk is an opportunity for walkers to raise money for eating disorders education, prevention and support, and research initiatives. Together, stand up to stigma and send the message that recovery is possible. The FREE event is open to everyone and includes games, prizes, and a brief walk around the Arboretum. Furry friends are welcome too!

The Provost Office will be hosting its first open lab hours for Interfolio@Illinois on Thursday, April 21st from 8:00-10:00 a.m. in 1306 Everitt Lab. Users with questions or needing additional assistance using the RPT system are encouraged to attend an open lab session for additional one-on-one assistance. Don't forget to bring your laptop! Additional times and locations can be found here. 

Featuring Leah Thomas,Vandana Shiva, and Heidi Hutner, the Summit will explore the intersection of social oppression and environmental justice. The first 100 students to register will receive a FREE copy of The Intersectional Environmentalist & a menstrual cup! Learn more and register at go.illinois.edu/ecofeminism Funding provided by SCPF and SSC.

New Student Programs is looking for faculty and staff to participate in our Illini Student Success panels, as part of our extended orientation programs, Inbound & RISE.  We ask that you are open to answering questions about the academic experience. If interested, complete a brief questionnaire indicating your availability.  Questions, email Jim Fry at fry10@illinois.edu . 

Please join us in welcoming journalist alumnus Terrell Jermaine Starr to campus for a Q&A on Tuesday, April 19 at 7:30pm. The event will be in the Auditorium of the Campus Instructional Facility (CIF), as well as on Zoom. The event is free and open to the public. To register for the online portion of the event, please visit: go.illinois.edu/QAWithTerrellJermaineStarr

Allerton Park Spring Artist-in-Residence and University of Illinois graduate José Gobbo will perform at the La Casa Cultural Latina, 1203 W. Nevada St., Urbana from 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday, May 5 during the Luso-Brazilian Association’s final gathering of the year. This event is free, but registration is required here.

The Institute for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access invites you to attend the 2022 IDEA Conference. This event will showcase research and key outcomes from our Grassroots Initiatives Addressing Needs Together (GIANT) projects. The goal of the GIANT program is to enable teams of students, staff, and faculty to propose and implement research-based initiatives that promote DEI.

Get your first glimpse of the 2022 Illinois football team when they host the annual Orange and Blue Spring Game on Thursday, April 21 under the lights at Memorial Stadium. Kickoff is set for 6:30 p.m. Admission is FREE. Pregame tailgating is open to all fans beginning at Noon in Lot 31 and Grange Grove. 

Are you an undergraduate interested in gaining skills in outreach, marketing, community engagement, event planning, public relations, social justice, and more? Come to the Library Student Ambassador info session! The Library Student Ambassadors serve as advocates for University of Illinois Libraries at outreach events and through peer connections. Interested students can register here. 

URBANITE Dance Showcase will premiere at the Krannert Center Amphitheatre, showcasing 15+ dance groups performing hip-hop choreography with additional styles including Latin to contemporary dance, brought together by DJ sets and special guests. The show creates an electric event that is both potent enough for die-hard dance fans and accessible enough for the casual admirer. Tickets $10-25.

As a jazz percussionist and innovator in Japanese taiko, Kenny Endo’s adventurous spirit stretches the genre, incorporating funk, jazz, Afro-Cuban, & Hawaiian influences, with roots grounded in tradition. Endo tours with his Contemporary Ensemble on his 45th anniversary tour. Endo was the first non-national to be honored with a natori, a stage name, in Japanese classical drumming. Tickets $10–50.

Join iSEE, the Center for Advanced Studies and co-sponsors for a MillerComm Lecture by Richard Lazarus, Urbana native, U of I graduate, and Harvard Professor of Environmental Law. In “The Rule of Five: Making Climate History at the Supreme Court,” Lazarus will discuss the inside story of the Court's most important environmental case. 4:30p Wednesday, April 20 | Spurlock Museum Knight Auditorium.

Bring your children to East Asian Story Time, and enjoy a Kamishibai.  A popular form of street theater in the 1930s and post-war Japan, Kamishibai (紙芝居) or “paper play” is a set of illustrated boards or cards that tell a story. Can't make it in-person?  Register in advance to watch the program live on Zoom.

Join us on April 18 from 5-7 pm (CST) for a seminar led by Susan Koshy (AAS/English), Soo Ah Kwon (AAS), and Junaid Rana (AAS). To access the readings, please visit this Box folder. For the password, please email Hyeree Ellis or Ashli Anda. This seminar is funded by the Chancellor's Call to Action to Address Racism and Social Injustice Research Program.

Join us for a free online symposium to celebrate the human voice. International speakers will share their recent research. The speakers: Dario D’Orazio, Ian Howell, Joshua Glasner, Diana Orbelo, Keiko Ishikawa, Mary Pietrowicz, Brian Monson, Pasquale Bottalico, and Yvonne Gonzales Redman. To receive the Zoom link, email: wvoiceday.uiuc@gmail.com. 

Celebrate World Voice Day! Assoc Prof Yvonne Gonzales Redman, Music; Drs. Pasquale Bottalico and Keiko Ishikawa, Speech & Hearing Science, organized a free online symposium on voice research in celebration of World Voice Day. This symposium includes international speakers sharing their research joined by UIUC faculty participating in interdisciplinary projects illuminating voice usage and health.

This Thursday, the C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute features Harvard Professor Milind Tambe in “AI for Social Impact: Results From Deployments for Public Health and Conservation.” In this free talk, we’ll dive into using AI to address global challenges such as HIV prevention, Maternal and Child care interventions, and wildlife conservation. More info and register here!

Byron Wallace, Associate Professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, will present "Talk on Methods to Aid Model Debugging: From Rationales to Influence". The Responsible Data Science and AI Speaker Series discusses topics such as equity, fairness, biases, ethics, and privacy. 

The future depends on our ability to develop leaders with the skills to utilize technology and anticipate disruption. Join us online! You'll explore ways to navigate a blockchain-enabled world and hear from industry influencers like Vitalik Buterin (co-founder of Ethereum) and alumni Michael Li (VP of Data at Coinbase) and Anatoly Yakovenko (co-founder of Solana).

SHIELD Illinois, the U of I System's nonprofit COVID-testing unit, seeks research proposals that will help improve operations, better understand the broader impacts of the SHIELD Illinois unit and discover best practices for guiding public responses to future crises. Join an informational webinar to learn more and get your questions answered Wednesday, April 20, at 8 a.m. 

As schools in India transitioned to online education due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a tension began spreading throughout the country between fee paying parents, and fee-charging schools. This talk will focus on how one school dealt with this tension to navigate both the pressures of requiring finances to run the school, as well as the economic hardship faced by the fee paying parents.

The Qualitative Research Initiative of the CSBS is hosting an interdisciplinary panel of experienced faculty to discuss their approaches to teaching qualitative and mixed methods. Considering growing interest in digital methods, "big data," research ethics, and collaborative work, the panel will explore the changing state of the art of qualitative methods teaching. Registration required. 

Suzanne Mayer, Executive Director of the State Universities Retirement System (SURS) will be discussing current initiatives and challenges of the organizations and how they may impact SURS members on Sunday, April 24, at 2 PM. Participants are welcome to join the Zoom session and chat informally at 1:30 PM. Visit the SUAA-UIUC webpage for Zoom connection information and meeting agenda.

Gavin Schmidt, Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), will deliver the 2022 Charles David Keeling Lecture via a webinar. As the impacts of human-caused climate change become more evident, and the needs for adaption and mitigation more urgent, reliable and actionable information about the Earth System is crucial. 

The European Union Center is pleased to host Finn S. Willems (Program Officer, Fulbright Foreign Programs) on Tuesday, April 19 at 1 P.M. CDT for an information session for U.S. and EU citizens on applying for research grants through the Fulbright Schuman program. The grants are for researchers with interest in EU affairs or the U.S.-EU transatlantic agenda.

Tina Cowsert, Disability Resources & Educational Services (DRES), is the guest speaker at an online event hosted by F&S' Diversity and Inclusion Committee. Join us for "A Brief Overview of Deaf Culture, Deaf/Hard of Hearing Common Accommodations," Wed., Apr. 20, at noon. Register to get login info: https://go.fs.illinois.edu/diversityandinclusion. Zoom captions will be enabled during the event.

Join us on April 20 at 1 pm CST for our monthly IGET meeting. Our main topic will focus on the physical spaces on campus and how they facilitate hybrid learning. We'll have a couple speakers from various campus departments, including the new Campus Instructional Facility. Afterward, we'll have an open discussion on tech-enhanced spaces.

This course shows how people can achieve more with the built-in accessibility tools and features in Microsoft technologies. It focuses on features for those who need to customize their settings for hearing, sight, and neurodiverse needs, as well as for those that wish to be more inclusive in the content they create and the way they present.

Claire Bowditch & Elaine Hobby (Loughborough University, UK) will discuss how their fellowships at the RBML informed and shaped their research of Aphra Behn, one of the first English women to earn her living by writing. This talk will draw attention to some of Behn's works that exist in either unique or rare states amongst the RBML's collections at the U of I. Zoom registration is open to all.

The Collaboration Cafe is a monthly webinar, hosted by the NCSA-led Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub, to explore funding opportunities and foster collaborative proposal development. On Thursday, April 21 at 3:00pm CT, the webinar will discuss the NSF Smart & Connected Communities program with prior awardees and others from across the Midwest.

Panelist: Zhi Chen (Chair Prof. & Director of Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology of Hong Kong Baptist U; Provost of Beijing Normal U-Hong Kong Baptist U United International College); Gergana Ivanova (Assoc Prof. of Japanese Literature & Culture, U of Cincinnati); Minsoo Kang (Prof, History, U of Missouri St-Louis); Moderator: Kai-Wing Chow (Prof. of History & East Asian Languages & Cultures, UIUC)

Join us Monday, May 2 for the College of Education's Dean's Distinguished Speaker, Dr. Megan Bang (Ojibwe & Italian descent), Prof at Northwestern University and Sr Vice President at the Spencer Foundation. Dr. Bang will speak on the topic Engaging Faculty in an Empowered University: Reimagining the Meaning of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.   Registration required.

The Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation (CAII) at NCSA will be hosting a Research Seminar on Monday, April 18 from 11:00am-12:00pm via Zoom. The speaker for this seminar will be Janice McMahon from Lucata. Janice will be presenting on "Graph Engine to Tackle the Toughest Graph Analytics Challenges." 

We live in a world where most of today's information has become easily accessible and overly shared online. A recent study found that more than 70% of its participants agreed that one must consume enormous amounts of information to become successful, and technology is the key to gaining access. Join Erica Noel, M.S., as she discusses this and more! Register here

The corpus of literary works by accomplished/educated women writers emerged during the Heian period (794–1185) in Japan played a critical role in the creation of a national literary tradition. Despite their seeming timelessness, these texts have elicited criticism and received praise over the centuries. Although written over 1000 years ago, they continue to inform contemporary cultural production.

Mindfulness can play an important role in our everyday decision-making. It   centers on focused attention, remaining open, and practicing acceptance. In this lesson, we will discuss the relationship between mindfulness and money  behaviors. We also will explore practical strategies that can help build positive money habits that have long-term benefits for your health and wellness. Register here!

Looking for adults aged 21-55 years with high weight for height to participate in a study into prolonged sitting and how adults think. The study involves 3 visits to Freer Hall, 1 Zoom call, wearing activity monitors, and screening. Measures include cognitive tests, electroencephalography, a body scan, maximal exercise test, and blood draws. Compensation up to $350.If interested, click here!

The BCNN Lab is launching a study called ELIAS, which is focused on the cognitive and nutritional development of infants beginning at 12-18 months. You will be asked to come to 6 visits (1.5 hours each) over the course of 12 months and will receive $420 in Amazon e-gift cards. Additional compensation will be provided for those traveling over 30 miles. Contact elias.uiuc@gmail.com if interested.

This study involves adults ages 45-75 years consuming two different supplements daily for two separate four-week periods. Participation involves collection of stool samples and diet records. Participants will complete surveys and computer tasks (over 6 visits of 1.5 to 2.5 hours each) to assess thinking ability. The study will take ~13 weeks total. Compensation of $350 provided upon completion.

We are exploring challenges encountered in daily activities by adults aged 60+. If you or someone you know is experiencing difficulty with thinking, memory, or concentration or has mild cognitive impairment, we would like to learn from your experiences to develop solutions. The study will be conducted using videochat. Participants will be paid. Contact KCH-HFA-ENACT@illinois.edu or 217-265-0885.

We are looking for participants to join a feedback session on understanding perceptions and behaviors in media multitasking. You will be asked to complete a task during media entertaining and give feedback. It will take 30 minutes to complete at our lab located at 43 Gregory Hall. Participants will receive a $10 Amazon gift card. Please contact Shili (sxiong9@illinois.edu) if interested. 

Sign up for the new Consumer Attitudes study! This survey (8 min) is about consumer attitudes and beliefs in general. You will read one or two short articles (e.g., healthcare) and provide your attitudes accordingly. Complete the questionnaire at: go.gies.illinois.edu/Panel. All participants will be given a $1 Amazon gift card and entered into a drawing for 1 of 5 $50 Amazon gift cards! 

This study seeks to understand the attentional demands of wheelchair propulsion for adult manual wheelchair users. Participants will receive a $20.00 Amazon gift card for completing online surveys (~30 min) and one in-person testing session (~1.5 hr). Testing will be at Freer Hall, with offered onsite parking. If interested, please contact the researchers at mikaela5@illinois.edu or 217-333-4650.