Mobile unit services include: driver’s license and state ID card (renewal, replacement, corrections), vehicle stickers; passenger, B-truck, motorcycle and collegiate license plates; vehicle title and registration; organ/tissue donor registration; and parking placards for persons with disabilities.

The annual Arbor Day Celebration will on the South Quad at noon, with the planting of a new tree west of Mumford Hall. Please join Vice Chancellor for Administration and Operations Mike DeLorenzo for the reading of the proclamation and help plant a campus tree. Rain location is the Fay M. Sims Executive Center located on the first floor of the ACES Library.

The EU Center is accepting applications for course development grants of up to $2,500. Course topics could speak to a variety of themes that form European Union Studies, including language courses, climate change; war and peace in Europe; Europe, NATO, and international organizations; restorative justice; refugee and migration studies; and more. See the call for proposals for details.

If you are leaving the campus after this semester, consider donating your used bicycle to the Campus Bike Center (51 Gregory Dr.) or the Bike Project of Urbana (202 S. Broadway Ave., Room 24). It only takes a few minutes to drop off your bike, and no appointment is needed. All donations are tax-deductible. Bicycles will be refurbished or recycled with as much of the bike reused as possible.

Gies Business is rolling out a pair of fully online graduate certificates in Strategic Leadership & Management and Accounting Data Analytics. You will participate in highly interactive, live online classes, and each certificate carries 12 hours of University of Illinois credit, which can be applied toward Gies online master’s degrees - the iMBA, iMSM, or iMSA. Apply now. Classes start August 10.

SIM Camp is a week-long math day camp hosted by the UIUC Department of Mathematics. Camp Epsilon, Jun 6-10, is for rising 8-10th graders. Camp Delta, Jun 20-24, is for rising 10-12th graders. Campers will study game theory, combinatorics, and number theory. We don't ask for grades and welcome students of all backgrounds. Scholarships/travel reimbursement are available! Apply here before April 30.

The Office of the Provost provides limited funding assistance to post-tenure faculty who are interested in NCFDD’s Post-Tenure Pathfinders Program. The program is for faculty who have completed NCFDD's Faculty Success Program. Up to 2 recipients will receive funds. Full-time, tenure-line faculty at Illinois are eligible to apply. Applicants may receive these matching funds only once.

Our office will be open the following hours during final exam week for processing exams administered using Scantrons:  Friday, May 6, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm, and Monday, May 9, through Friday, May 13, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm. We will remain open during the lunch hour from 12 pm - 1 pm.

Celebrate and support students, alumni, and community members who are making a social and environmental impact through entrepreneurship. The event includes a venture showcase with networking, followed by a pitch competition for cash prizes. Join us for food, connections, door prizes, and inspiration from Illinois changemakers. Find new opportunities to make an impact! Open to the public. Register.

Join Paul Kwiat, Bardeen Professor of Physics and founding director of the Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, as he presents in-person at the Spring 2022 Kent Seminar Series Thursday, April 28, 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!

The Slavic Reference Service invites you to an Anna Akhmatova poetry reading! The event will be held on April 29 @ 4 PM CST in the Upper Courtyard of the UGL. The event will begin with poetry trivia which will precede the reading. We invite anyone with a love of poetry or language to sign up for a spot at the mic! Register: https://forms.gle/jf5AWvhpB4zVtB93A 

All are welcome to join Siebel Center for Design on Reading Day to              Hit Refresh ahead of finals week and the end of another incredible semester. Yoga with Kristina Reese, snacks, lawn games, craft projects in our Shop, UIPD therapy dogs, t-shirts, swag, and more will be on offer from 11AM-4PM, rain or shine. It’s all free, and no registration is required. See you there! 

FSI is open to all faculty and staff and offers hands-on workshops, panels, roundtables, and plenty of networking opportunities. This year we are excited to return to an in-person meeting to mark the conference's 25th anniversary, but a virtual option is also available. Join us as we look at how higher education has progressed over the past quarter of a century and how it continues to adapt.

The School of Music marks 125 years with a weekend of concerts that feature the talent and range of its student, faculty, alumni, and community performers. Highlights include performances by Nathan Gunn, Ollie Watts Davis, and Grammy Award–winning composer and bassist Christian McBride, who will lead a performance of his major work The Movement Revisited–A Musical Portrait of Four Icons. 

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 . 

Ryan Hubbard and Tian "Autumn" Qiu, both 2018 Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows, will speak at the Beckman Institute Director's Seminar at noon on Thursday, April 28. The hybrid event will be held in 2269 Beckman Institute and on Zoom. A boxed lunch will be provided to those who register as in-person attendees. Registration is required.

A Container Gardening Workshop will be held at Allerton Park from 1 to 2 p.m. Friday May 13 in the Greenhouse Auditorium. Registration is required, and the event is limited to 20 participants. Extension educator Sarah Vogel will present proper planting techniques. Participants will take home their own planter. Cost is $25. Register here.

A Kids’ Potting Corner will be set up at the Allerton Park Plant Sale Fundraiser April 29-May 1. Kids will be able to purchase a plant and use the park’s potting soil to pot it up in a complimentary terracotta planter. Volunteers will be onsite to assist with proper planting techniques. No registration is necessary.

The East Central Illinois Master Naturalists and Champaign County Climate Coalition invite you to join us for a Happy Hour Hike. This is low key opportunity to enjoy a walk and talk with conservation-minded folks in our region. Whether you are just curious about our local environment or it is your full-time job, anyone is welcome to join. There is no registration necessary, just swing by!

Dance at Illinois will present IZLES, the culminating concert of the BFA Class of 2022, featuring works by Alex Kinard, Jordan Brookins, Kennedy Cowan, Elyana London, Nia Khan and Helena Gorgol.

Join us to celebreate the 9th annual Image of Research -- UR Edition on Thursday, April 28th as part of the Undergraduate Research Symposium. All submissions will be on display in the Illini Union Ballroom. The Image of Research — UR Edition is a multidisciplinary competition celebrating the diversity and breadth of undergraduate student research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The Provost Office will be hosting open lab hours for Interfolio@Illinois on Wednesday, April 27th from 3:00-5:00 p.m. in 226 Wohlers Hall. 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.

Three and four-year-olds will sing, learn songs and dance at Allerton Park and Retreat Center’s Discovery Camp: Music and Sound from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Aug. 1-5. Cost is $92 for the week-long session. Slots fill up quickly. For more information go here.

This conference reimagines Asian America in the face of multi-layered political crises and an acute experience of vulnerability, precarity and exposure exacerbated by the upsurge of anti-Asian violence during the pandemic. This event is Funded by the University of Illinois Chancellor's Call to Action to Address Systemic Racism and Social Injustice Research Program. May 5-6, 9-5 pm (CST)

In the tale based on an actual lie, Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi reluctantly returns to Changchun to find, although all the family knows their beloved matriarch, Nai-Nai, has been given mere weeks to live, everyone has decided not to tell Nai Nai herself. To assure her happiness, they gather under the joyful guise of an expedited wedding, uniting family members scattered among new homes abroad.

The Mark Morris Dance Group and Music Ensemble's Friday evening performance features a selection of works from the company’s repertoire, while Saturday evening pays tribute to the iconic 1967 Beatles album, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Pepperland features an original score interspersing arrangements of six Beatles classics with six Pepper-inspired original pieces. Tickets $10–60.

This Thursday, the C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute features Illinois Professor Ruhta Meta in “Allocating Goods, Bads, and Mixed: Fairness and Efficiency through Competitiveness.” All are welcome – free to attend. More info and register here!

Join us for a presentation led by Heidi M. Hurd, Ross and Helen Workman Chair in Law and Professor of Philosophy at University of Illinois. She will investigate tough questions about Environmental law and offers her insight into its shortcomings. Find more information on our event page.

HRI & Office of Undergraduate Research seek applications for a Humanities Research Lab (HRL) course to be taught in spring 2023. HRL course model supports humanities tenure-line faculty in taking an existing undergraduate course and re-fashioning it as local community-based research experience. Applications due 6/1/22. Join this info session to learn about applying for HRL.

Join us for a lively discussion about every day, timely financial topics as well as strategies for how to talk with others about money. Interactive free webinars that will give you tools to move forward with your personal financial goals! Preregistration required at http://go.illinois.edu/ Contact: Kathy Sweedler at sweedler@illinois.edu . Online with Zoom http://go.illinois.edu/TalkMoney 

Join us for the virtual Spring University of Illinois Press Publishing Symposium for panels on recognizing and countering bias in scholarly research and how publishers are working to develop antiracist and anti-bias practices in scholarly publishing. 

In the past two decades, many school systems have made cuts to subjects that are not part of regular standardized testing. But is it paying off? Join Shelby Keye, M.S. to learn about the impact of physical ed. cuts on children's academic success, and how teachers, school administrators, policymakers, and parents can increase children's access to physical activity opportunities. Register here

Carle is seeking participants for a study to compare blood, skin and urine samples from individuals with and without hEDS. Participants must be female, age 18-60, and available to attend a study visit in Urbana. Participants who have not experienced symptoms of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and do not have chronic pain could be paid up to $50. Please contact Liz Trausch at Liz.Trausch@carle.com.

We are recruiting participants aged 50+ who have read the Harry Potter books and/or seen the Harry Potter movies for a paid brainwave reading experiment ($12/hr). The experiment will last approximately 3-4 hours and is held in the Beckman Institute. For more information, contact Melissa Troyer at troyer1@illinois.edu.

F&S is conducting a Mode Choice Survey for students, faculty, and staff. It will assess students’ and employees’ primary mode of commuting and transportation on campus. This information will be used to understand how community members move in/around the campus and will help to promote new programs to encourage active modes of transportation. Click: https://surveys.illinois.edu/sec/134960916

This study will investigate the relationship between diet, gut health, and metabolic health. Participants will consume a pre-packaged snack twice per day for 12-weeks and will be asked to visit the lab 3 times for testing and blood draws. In addition, 6 stool samples will be collected. For your participation, you can receive up to $300. Interested? Contact us at SNACKingStudy@illinois.edu

The EPL is recruiting low-active adults (ages 45-65) who work full time in a sedentary occupation to participate in a FREE 12-week virtual exercise program! As part of the program, you will receive live, virtual exercise classes, health coaching to help with your physical activity goals, and up to $40 for completing all assessments. To learn more, click on this link: https://redcap.link/bst1gfnu

This study will investigate the relationship between yogurt consumption and gut health. The study consists of two 2-week periods where you will consume yogurt twice per day, separated by a 4-week period. In addition, you will visit the lab for 5 sessions, and also provide 4 stool samples. For your participation, you can receive up to $300. Interested? Contact us at NECTARstudy@illinois.edu

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.

Your child will participate in seven 2-hour visits & take a daily gummy over 9 months. Activities include height, weight, & eye health measurements, reading & math related questions, computer tasks, & parent questionnaires. Families will receive up to $300, plus $10 per visit for travel costs. Parking provided. To learn more, email iCONStudy@illinois.edu or call 217-300-1667.