A policy has been posted to the CAM Website: Digital Accessibility. Visit https://cam.illinois.edu/policies/under-review/ to review and provide feedback. 

The Illini-Alert emergency notification system will be tested at 10:05 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 6. Visit go.illinois.edu/illinialert for additional information and technical support. To receive prompt emergency notifications, add or update your cellphone numbers and email addresses at emergency.illinois.edu.

Tenured and untenured Illinois faculty are invited to apply for one semester of release time to pursue an individual scholarly or creative project. Application materials can be found here.

The Office of Undergraduate Research is now accepting applications from undergraduate researchers to our Research Support Grant and newly revised Conference Travel Grant! Please encourage your undergraduate students to apply for these grants to fund their research projects and presentation expenses. For more information, please visit our website.

The Personalized Nutrition Initiative with the support of our External Partners Program is seeking applications for multidisciplinary research proposals with the potential to provide new applied and translatable innovation in personalized nutrition to advance health or solutions to personalized nutrition-related barriers that meet shared and critical needs in companies of all sizes.

Interested in mentoring an undergraduate student for your summer research project? Illinois Space Grant UROP program offers students the opportunity to work in STEM research positions in NASA-related work that complements their studies. Please see the website for full details and to submit your description. Due Nov. 1, 2022. UROP 2023 - Faculty/Mentor Information

Humanities Without Walls seeks applications from doctoral students pursuing degrees in the humanities & humanistic social sciences for the Career Diversity Summer Workshop, hosted by the University of Minnesota Twin Cities in 2023. Selected workshop fellows will be provided with accommodations in Minneapolis and a $4,000 stipend. Application deadline is November 1, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. Central.

Need help with data, troubleshooting code, statistical analyses, or survey research? Consulting is open to campus on Stata, SAS, SPSS, R, Qualtrics, Python, and Alchemer. In-person and virtual drop-in hours are available Monday-Friday. Learn more about our workshops & register for one or more. All services are FREE through a partnership with CITL, the Library Scholarly Commons, and Tech Services.

The IDEA Lab is now offering 3D printing services in our newly refurbished 3D Printing Studio, located in the lower level of the Grainger Engineering Library. We are equipped with new advanced FDM and SLA printers. Our prices are kept affordable to help broaden access to these important rapid prototyping technologies. Visit our website to submit your 3D printing requests now.

Join University staff, administration, and faculty to learn to better support undocumented students at the University of Illinois. The training will be held on Friday, September 16th from 1-4pm on campus. Lunch will be provided for participants. Space is limited and registration is required to attend. Complete the registration link at http://go.illinois.edu/UndocuAlly  

Join this lively learning community for all faculty! Theme is “Students Becoming Successful Learners." First session is on maximizing student feedback from ICES and Informal Early Feedback (IEF). New and returning topics: e.g., engage students emotionally and cognitively, effective questioning skills, and teach students to be better learners. Great conversations and handouts. Register here.

Get ready for your semester with the Library's sessions on developing research and information management skills. Topics this week include Choosing a Citation Manager, How to Use Adobe InDesign, Creating Citations in Mendeley, and Introduction to Library Research. Workshops are also available by request for groups. You can view our Fall 2022 schedule. Everyone is welcome!

The 15th annual Light the Night is Thursday, Sept. 15, from 4 to 7 p.m., at Alma Mater Plaza, Hallene Gateway, and the Campus Bike Center. You MUST bring your bike to get a light set. Approximately 1,100 bike light sets will be available this year. Remember, bike lights are required by Illinois law when riding at night. Volunteers are still needed for the event.

Join Allerton Natural Areas staff on Friday morning bird hikes. Birds are starting to move south and each week the variety of bird species in the park will change. At times the hikes will leave the trails, so please dress accordingly. Meet in the park’s Main Parking Lot at 9 a.m. Hikes are $5 per person or FREE if you are a member of the Allerton Bird Club.

Help send off the season with a Summer’s End Concert on the Gate House Lawn at Allerton Park at 6 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 9. It will feature the music of Stone & Snow and Chicago Farmer & The Fieldnotes as part of the Allerton Park Concert Series presented by The Ayers Family. There will also be food available for purchase, and artisan vendors will have their wares on display.

Ride your bike to campus on Wednesday, Sept. 14, and get a free t-shirt! Welcome stations will be set up across the area from 7 – 10 a.m., including eight U of I locations. Celebrate Champaign County Bike to Work Day with others by stopping in for refreshments and snacks. You must bring your bicycle and pre-register at https://go.fs.illinois.edu/BiketoWorkDay to get the shirt!

The Center for East Asian and Pacific, in partnership with the Orchard Downs Community Center, presents East Asian Story Time, a family event series celebrating cultural and language diversity in our communities. Each bilingual storytime event will feature a story read in English and Chinese, Japanese, or Korean to spark children’s interest in East Asian languages and cultures. All are welcome!

The Provost Office will be hosting open lab hours for Interfolio@Illinois on Thursday, Sept. 8 from 2:00 – 3:50 p.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. 

Nancy Toff, an academic and trade history editor with Oxford University Press, will demystify the work of the university press. She will explain what editors look for in book proposals and manuscripts, how to prepare and submit a proposal, and how to work with all departments of a university press to produce the best possible book.

Please join us on Sept. 15 as Dr. Chezare Warren, Associate Professor of Equity & Inclusion, Vanderbilt University, will speak to this year's theme, "Will (D)iversity, (E)quity and (I)nclusion Die?: Advocacy and Action Towards Greater Accountability in an Empowered University."

The CEAPS and EALC cordially invite you to our joint Fall 2022 Reception and Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration on Friday, Sept. 9 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Crystal Lake Park. Join us to celebrate the beginning of fall and welcome new students, colleagues, and scholars to our community! Mooncakes and light dinner will be served. RSVP by Sept. 6 appreciated.

You are invited to Awadagin Pratt: Black in America, a one-hour presentation by the internationally renowned pianist combining live musical performance with students from the School of Music, autobiographical narrative, and silent film with recorded piano accompaniment. Please note that some of the film’s imagery is disturbing and potentially traumatizing.

Join us Wed., Sept. 7, at noon via Zoom or in person in room 108 Coble Hall, as Crystal Allen (Dept. of Animal Sciences, Illinois) discusses the topic of "Improving Dairy Cattle Genetics in Tanzania." After the discussion, our speaker will answer questions and address comments. All are welcome! If attending virtually, register here.

This is the first lecture in the Fall 2022 Modern Critical Theory Lecture series. Professor Antoinette Burton (History) will lecture on "Gender History: A Very Short Introduction." For assigned readings, visit our website. 

The Illinois Club is hosting its annual Opening Party. The Illinois Club is one of the oldest university social clubs. The purpose of our Club is to promote friendship and education, achieved through interest groups, campus tours, University of Illinois scholarship awards, and special events. Guests and interested newcomers are welcome. Please RSVP by emailing reservations@theillinoisclub.org 

Join Japan House outside in the gardens for Tsukimi, or Moon Viewing, to celebrate the Harvest Moon. Prof. Kimiko Gunji will demonstrate a special tea ceremony and Omar Francis sensei will play shakuhachi on a traditional Japanese wooden boat in the pond. Paper lanterns with a flameless battery tealight will be available for pre-order for $5 to be floated on the pond in memory of a loved one.

Come learn about the latest in research from the Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) project scientists. Highlights of the open house include talking with the lead authors of the recent Science paper, seeing the RIPE research crop plots, and weather-pending a demonstration of the RIPE Aerial Plant Phenotyping System (RAPPS – AKA the Spidercam!).

Join us for a traditional Japanese Tea Ceremony! Chado, or the Way of Tea, is one of the most ancient and revered arts of Japan and is at the very heart of Japan House. Each month will feature a different seasonal wagashi (traditional Japanese sweet) for guests to enjoy. Space is limited to 15 guests. Reservations are required, no walk-ins will be permitted. 

September 11 is Grandparent's Day. On that afternoon, our Spurlock Sunday family activities will help you celebrate these and other favorite family members. Create your own family-based BINGO game in the Collaboration and Community Gallery. At 2:00 pm, join our storyteller, Kim Sanford, for grandparent folktales from around the world. The program is free and everyone is welcome.

The Dept. of Aerospace Engineering will host a special lecture to honor Prof. Emeritus Harry H. Hilton, who passed away earlier this year. The speaker, Basil Hassan, is the director and deputy chief research officer at Sandia National Laboratories. He will speak on, the "Evolution of Aerospace Technologies supporting National Security Applications."

James Hinman, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Illinois, will give this Frontiers in Miniature Brain Machinery lecture in person and on Zoom. Attendance is free and open to the public courtesy of the Miniature Brain Machinery Program.

Join us for the 5th annual Miniature Brain Machinery Retreat! Featuring plenary lectures by world-renowned scientists Lili Deligianni, Roger Kamm, and Princess Imoukhuede, along with presentations by PhD students training in this cutting-edge field. View the event page for details & registration.

The Office of the Provost invites you to attend the upcoming session in the Thriving as an Associate Professor seminar series: Congrats You've Been Promoted, Now What? We will share tips & strategies to help you on your career path since your own promotion to Associate Professor. Click here to register.

Join us Tuesday, Sept. 6, at noon via Zoom as author Nishant Batsha and Prof. Rebecca Oh (Dept. of English, Illinois) discuss the book, "Mother Ocean Father Nation." After the discussion, our speakers will answer questions and address comments. All are welcome! Register here.

The NCSA Delta team and NVIDIA are hosting a workshop to give you hands-on experience accelerating Python codes with NVIDIA GPUs. We will utilize code samples in three main categories: drop-in replacements for SciPy and NumPy code through CuPy, acceleration for data science workloads using RAPIDS, and custom accelerated code using Numba. Registration is limited and required through this form.

Safiya U. Noble, internet studies scholar and professor of gender studies and African American studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, will present "Taking on Big Tech: New Paradigms for New Possibilities." In the Responsible Data Science and AI Speaker Series, we discuss topics such as equity, fairness, biases, ethics, and privacy.

Starting Sept. 15, this 6-week, virtual support group includes a short weekly lesson from area partners and opportunities to connect with others who have diabetes. Register by Sept. 9 at go.illinois.edu/livingwell.

Join Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation Volodymyr Kindratenko for an online training session Sept. 7 at 3 p.m. to help users get started with deep learning projects on HAL, the hardware accelerated learning cluster at NCSA. This tutorial will introduce new users to HAL system and how to interact with it through Open OnDemand web interface. Click here to sign up!

Join us on Zoom this Thursday at 3 p.m. to hear from Bo Li, an assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign on "Trustworthy Machine Learning: Robustness, Privacy, Generalization, and Their Interconnections.” C3.ai DTI's Digital Transformation Science Colloquium series features weekly talks from top scientists from academia and industry. Register here!

HPCBio, with the support of the OVCR, is announcing a fall workshop series, Microbial Profiling Analysis, that covers steps necessary to analyze 16S, 18S, & ITS sequence data from a microbiome study. You may also opt to take only the first 4 weeks of the series, which includes Intro to Linux, HPC, and R. These 2 options will be held online at the dates and times below. There are no pre-requisites.

Recruiting adults between 30-59 years old with a BMI between 25-39 for a 2-week feeding intervention to better understand the effects of dairy milk on muscle health and inflammation. All meals are included for 2 weeks. Blood and muscle samples will be collected. Upon completion, you'll receive $300, results from your bone density scan, and metabolic health tests. Click the LINK for more details!

The Infant Cognition Lab needs infants and toddlers for brief studies on early cognitive development. Come to our lab for a fun show, and help us understand how young children reason about objects and people. Safety precautions are practiced, and parking is provided. In thanks, choose $15 in cash or a child’s gift. If interested, email infantlab@illinois.edu or call 217-333-5988.

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.

We are looking for bilateral cochlear implant users to participate in research exploring ways of delivering information with cochlear implants with the hope of improving speech and music perception. Compensation of $15 an hour; an estimated 3-5 hours of participation. Scheduling is flexible. Full days on weekdays are preferable. Email binauralhearinglab@gmail.com or call (217) 244-2154.

The iCONS research study involves seven 2-2.5 hour visits & a daily gummy for 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 217-300-1667.