The final version of the Spring 2022 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students is now available at go.illinois.edu/lotrae.

EJP is accepting applications until Oct. 3 from individuals interested in a) teaching next spring in our college-in-prison program at Danville and b) joining our Reentry Guide Initiative, which produces reentry and deportation guides. RGI positions start Fall 2022 and can be fulfilled virtually. EJP members are unpaid. Learn more here.

While the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program deadline is coming up fast (9/15), there is still time to submit a competitive application. Interested scholars are encouraged to explore the following resources: Catalog of Awards, Webinar Schedule and Archive, Office Hours, and Application Walkthrough. For additional Fulbright opportunities and resources, please visit Global Relations Fulbright webpage.

Illinois International would like to invite all Fulbright recipients to join the Illinois Global Summit and submit a digital poster to showcase your research and cultural experience abroad. Please email iip-globalrelations@illinois.edu by Sept. 16 if you are interested in submitting a poster and learning more about the requirements. The deadline for submission is Oct. 3.

We are hosting a native tree and shrub sale. Support pollinators and other local wildlife by adding indigenous plants to your home landscape. You have until Sept. 30 to research, plan, order, and pay for your selection of native trees and shrubs. Your order will be available for outdoor pickup on Saturday, Oct. 15 in Urbana. They cost $30 each for 3-gallon potted plants.  

URAP offers undergraduate students with little or no research experience the opportunity to assist grad students & post-docs with their research projects. Please encourage your undergraduate students to apply now for the opportunity to join our Spring 2023 cohort (deadline: Oct 6). For more information and to apply, please visit: https://go.illinois.edu/URAP

The U of I System and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem are sponsoring the 2022 Joint Research & Innovation Seed Grants Program with focus areas of agriculture, artificial intelligence, data science, and medicine. Proposals must have at least one participant from each university and can receive up to $50,000. Apply by Oct. 28.

Humanities Without Walls seeks applications for the Grand Research Challenge initiative, which provides grants of up to $150,000 over a two-year period (January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2025) for teams pursuing research with a commitment to methodologies of reciprocity and redistribution. Application deadline is November 15, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. Central Time. 

On Monday, Sept. 12, Microsft 365 (M365) products will have two security changes applied: link checking and file sharing defaults. These changes will help protect student, faculty, staff, and university data from being compromised by parties and will decrease the risk of phishing attacks or malicious activity. For more information read the Microsoft 365 Security Changes email.

Opening for low-cost therapy for kids struggling with feelings of sadness, withdrawl from activites, anxiety, post-traumatic symptoms, social fears, and other concerns. Treatment may be provided in person or via video conferencing. More info/free screening appointment, call 217-333-0041. Psychological Services Center, 505 E. Green St. Champaign.

Interested in learning to calm your mind and learn new skills to cope with the challenges that life brings? Can you make a commitment to listen to daily mindfulness audios? Click here to read the class description and to sign up. Classes are also open to individuals who are not affiliated with the U of I. 

The main negative effect of top-down drug war policies has been the labeling of drug addicts as social deviants. But which practices could be initiated to make drug use and addiction more sustainable? Please join the EU Center for a lecture, “The Long War on Drugs and Its Global Failure: What Can History Teach Us About Drug Addiction?” given by Matteo Pasetti (University of Bologna).

Join us for two performances by the Chicago Immigrant Orchestra on Tuesday, September 27! Times and Locations: Afternoon Pop-Up Concert, 2:00 p.m., Rm. 321 Main Library (no registration required) and Evening Concert, 7:30 p.m., Krannert Center for the Performing Arts (tickets are free for the university community and their guests: https://krannertcenter.com/events/chicago-immigrant-orchestra.)

The Program Leader Safety and Best Practices Workshop guides program leaders in preparing for the safest possible experience abroad. Those who lead, or assist, short-term education abroad or other University-related travel abroad for students must attend at least one workshop a year. Please visit safetyabroad.illinois.edu for more information and to register.

On September 15 at 12 p.m. (CST), Dr. Melissa Whatley (International and Global Education at SIT Graduate Institute) will be speaking in-person at the International and Area Studies Library, 309, and on Zoom, to present her talk, "Balancing Finances, Politics, & Public Health: International Student Enrollment and Reopening Plans at US Higher Education Institutions Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic."

Attend a Third Saturday Garden Tour to experience the beauty of Allerton’s formal gardens while listening to the history behind their creation. You will learn about the history of the estate, which was created between 1899 and 1946 by Robert Allerton and John Gregg. There is a $5 charge. Register here.

Sinfonia da Camera’s 39th season opens with Rossini’s brilliant overture to William Tell. The program continues with Beethoven’s solemn and regal Piano Concerto No. 3, with Maestro Ian Hobson serving as both piano soloist and conductor. The program concludes with Schubert’s “Great” Symphony No. 9. Join Sinfonia da Camera in this performance of the “Great” Symphony in the Great Hall. Tickets here.

Don’t miss it! Free two-day event for faculty and staff. Thursday Vendor Showcase (4 p.m. to 7 p.m.) at SCD with cocktails and campus IPHEC vendors. Friday Symposium at CIF (9 a.m. to 2 p.m.) features community building presentations by Sarah Rose Cavanagh and Saad Shehab. Refreshments and lunch included. See website to learn more and register.

Veteran students come to college with unique backgrounds and experiences. Join us as we explore the military culture and how you can help create a smoother transition into the learning environment of higher education.

Join us for a formal multi-course meal featuring the many diverse and distinct ways of cooking, serving, and eating rice in Asia! 10 Ways of Rice is a curated participatory design experience that aims to bring the Asian community together by sharing cultural heritage and creating a welcoming space for guests at Japan House. This meal is completely vegetarian! Reservations required.

The university community is invited to hear alumna Jamie Pearson, Ph.D., assistant professor of Special Education at North Carolina State University, present on: Connecting FACES: Strengthening Agency, Advocacy, and Access among Historically Marginalized Families Supporting Autistic Children. Join in person or livestream at education.illinois.edu/live.

Baato tells the story of a young village family on an annual migration along the route of a coming transnational highway. Partially complete, the highway project will transform this roadless Himalayan valley permanently and open up a direct transport route between Nepal and China—bringing new challenges, new opportunities, and ultimately a new way of being.

Now accepting graduate students and postdoctoral researchers for the '22-'23 PSCB certificate program. This workshop series considers career path options including academia, industry, entrepreneurship, policy, teaching, science writing, and more, while developing and enhancing skills including CV/resume writing, negotiation, communication, design, and leadership. Learn more and register.

SCD’s Learner Workshops engage learners in activities and practices associated with the six mindsets around human-centered design. Sessions this fall will focus on the Human-Centered, Collaborative, and Creative mindsets. These are open to University of Illinois students, faculty, and staff interested in learning more about human-centered design. Attend in-person at SCD or via Zoom.

Join the New American Welcome Center to learn how our community has created an ecosystem to advance immigrant justice and find a way to bring the work of advancing equitable access, economic opportunity, and meaningful belonging in spaces you are part of. Paid for, in part, by SCPF. Free lunch provided.

RBML's fall exhibit features the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú. Please join us for the opening reception on Friday, September 16 from 3-5 p.m. in the RBML (346 Main Library).

This original performance explores our place in the cosmos through science, music, and movement. The Joy of Regathering considers who we are, from the microscopic entities that compose us to the astronomical realm that we inhabit. Regathering is the focus, coming together after a long separation: as voices, travelers, organisms; as stars within nebulae, galaxies within the Universe.

For this 50th anniversary celebration, Pilobolus questions its own givens, turns its traditions sideways, and brings its past into the future. Pilobolus—that feisty arts organism—puts the “Oh!” in Big Five-OH! and continues to morph its way thrillingly into audiences’ hearts and minds. The celebration includes signature works from vintage classics to their trend-setting innovative work in shadow.

For the School of Art & Design Visitors Series, hear from John Gero for "Your Brain in Design – The New Field of Design Neurocognition." 

How should the U.S. Constitution be interpreted and applied in the 21st century? Join a panel of experts to consider the benefits, downsides, and implications of different interpretive approaches. This event is free and open to the public. Remote attendance is also an option via livestream. 

Join Weiheng Zhong, a doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, as he presents in-person at the Fall 2022 Kent Seminar Series Thursday, Sep. 15, from 2-3 p.m. (CT). Pizza and soft drinks will be provided beginning at 1:30 p.m. in the ICT Classroom. 

Speaker Bushra Amiwala will lead a lunch talk, "Empowering Youth to Embrace Everyday Leadership" as part of the University YMCA Welcoming Week series. Lunch provided with RSVP by Sept. 9. The event page provides full details and list of co-sponsoring units.

“Are you thinking of Roe/Dobbs? Abortion and reproductive rights in the US and the world” Join us for this important conversation on regression and mobilization for abortion rights. Panelists: Dr. Leslie Reagan; Dr. Mariela Szwarcberg Daby;  and Emma Darbro. See event page for complete details and list of co-sponsoring units. 

Join Campus Recreation and the Illini Union Board for the brightest 5K on campus. This in-person 5K run-walk takes place in the evening on the Quad. Registration is $5 with $1 going to the Tony Clements Scholarship through Campus Recreation. The first 200 registrants receive a race fanny pack, a headlamp, and a coupon from the Illini Union Bookstore. Register today!

Eli Murray (BS ’15, journalism) won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting for “Poisoned,” a Tampa Bay Times series on highly toxic hazards inside Florida’s only battery recycling plant, forcing safety measures to protect workers and nearby residents. Join us in person or via Zoom for a Q&A led by Associate Professor of Journalism Charles “Stretch” Ledford.

This is the second lecture in the Fall 2022 Modern Critical Theory Lecture series. Professor David Wilson (GGIS) will lecture on "The Advanced Capitalist City: Conceptual Innovations." For assigned readings, visit our website. 

Come listen to a bilingual story in Japanese and English! Bring your children to East Asian Story Time and enjoy a storybook telling of “Thanking the Moon” by Grace Lin. This story follows the meanings and symbols behind the Chinese Autumn Moon Festival (Tsukimi/月見 in Japan). Co-sponsored by The Champaign Public Library and the Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies at the University of Illinois.

Every winter Mikma and her family travel by foot from their village deep in the Himalaya of Nepal to sell local medicinal plants in urban markets. This year, construction of a new highway to China has begun in their roadless valley, and things are never going to be the same. With the new road will come new challenges, new opportunities, and a new way of being to those who live along its path.

Join us to celebrate Healthcare Simulation Week! Jump Simulation Center - Urbana will be hosting an open house. Explore prototypes created by our own Jump ARCHES grant recipients as well as tour our state of the art facility.                                                 

Pre-Law Advising Services is excited to host the 2022 Law School Fair on September 28 at the Illini Union from 10 am – 2 pm. Students and alumni are invited to stop by during fair hours to meet with law school representatives from across the country. Junior and senior students considering attending law school are highly encouraged to attend.  Learn more about the Law Fair by clicking here.  

This semester, we're offering Mindfulness and Movement in the morning for a gentle start to the day. Dare to Dream, our popular life planning and goal setting program lead by TIffany Macke returns. We are also offering financial wellness classes on a variety of topics. All programs are being held online. To register and for more details, visit our website here.

ILLINOIS HEALTH SCIENCES & INNOVATION RESEARCHERS: Join us for an info session & overview of ARPA-H, the potential opportunities for Illinois researchers, & advice on what you can do now to prepare for future funding opportunities. Presentation by Eve Granatosky, PhD, Lewis-Burke Associates, LLC, followed by a panel discussion & Q&A with Illinois researchers experienced with other ARPA mechanisms.

Milena Tsvetkova, assistant professor in the Department of Methodology of the London School of Economics and Political Sciences, will present "Inequality and fairness with heterogeneous endowments." In the Responsible Data Science and AI Speaker Series, we discuss topics such as equity, fairness, biases, ethics, and privacy.

The Center for Advanced Study invites you to the next conversation in the Conspiracy, Misinformation and the Infodemic series. Led by Professor Stephanie Craft, dive into how increased calls for news literacy can help reduce misinformation, conspiracy theories, and other falsehoods. For more information and to register for this event, please click here.

Join us on Zoom this Thursday at 3 p.m. to hear from Brendan McMahan, a research scientist at Google, on "Federated Learning with Formal User-Level Differential Privacy Guarantees.” C3.ai DTI's Digital Transformation Science Colloquium series features weekly talks from top scientists from academia and industry. Register here!

Wind uplift design is a critical design component for an exposed geomembrane cover system. Conventional design methodology neglects the short-term vacuum that will be developed below the geomembrane as it is being uplifted, which leads to significant overdesign. This webinar will discuss the conventional design methodology, the proposed revision, and provide a design example. 1.0 PDH

Join NCSA Data Engineer Aaron Saxton for a training session Sept. 14 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 provide an easy-to-follow introduction to machine learning with neural networks and go over various examples from simple dense networks to convolutional network architectures. Sign up!

Become trained in Mental Health First Aid and gain a deeper understanding of mental health and how you can help others naviage a mental health or substance use crisis. An upcoming virtual training is available September 23 from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Registration closes September 16.

We've been hearing a lot about inflation in the media lately and you may have noticed the impact it is having on your wallet. Want to learn about how inflation impacts consumers and what contributes to its fluctuation? Join us via Zoom on September 28 to learn what it means and how you can ward off some of the short- and long-term impacts of inflation. Registration required.

Coming up next for the Center for Social and Behavioral Science (CSBS) Methods series is the virtual workshop, Social Network Analysis for the Social and Behavioral Sciences, to be presented by Prof. James Moody, Professor of Sociology at Duke University and Director of the Duke Network Analysis Center (DNAC). Register here.

NCSA and Research IT will offer this interactive workshop introducing built-in Python profiling tools, one of the performance tuning and optimization pillars. Hands-on exercises will explore time-based and memory-based profiling techniques of simple scripts highlighting typical routes programmers can take to make applications more efficient. Registration is required using this form.

U of I Web Conference is kicking off their fall workshop series! In this session, Todd Spinner will walk you through the steps he followed to stop being reactive to everything and how he established a few simple principles, methods, and tools to be able to seize the day and reclaim his life on his own terms. Learn more about this workshop!

Recruiting adults ages 18-75 years: the STARC study investigates arterial health, stress reactivity, and cognition. Two lab visits (2.5 hours each) during which we will assess your artery health, cognition, and fitness. You will receive $100 in e-gift cards as compensation. If interested, email starc.researchstudy@gmail.com or complete interest form at https://mpa17.youcanbook.me/ 

Individuals aged 60 years and older who care for a relative with dementia are needed for a research study. Participants will engage in fun, social events with other people through a video chat platform called OneClick. Participants are compensated for participation. For more information, contact us at shs-caregiver-engage@illinois.edu or 217-333-5262. 

Invite some friends for a paid alcohol research study lasting 6 to 9 hours. Compensation is up to $100 (for the Alcohol Friend Group Study) or up to $300 (for the Alcohol Biosensor Study) per participant. Must be 21 years of age or older. Weekend visits are available. Sign up on the Alcohol Research Lab website or reach out via email (uiucalcohollab@gmail.com) if you have any questions.

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.

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.

Looking for adults aged 21-64 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, wearing activity monitors, and screening. Measures include cognitive tests, electroencephalography, a body scan, maximal exercise test, and blood draws. Compensation up to $350. Click here if interested!

The National Center for Principled Leadership & Research Ethics is seeking participants for a study designed to gather information on perceptions of the social, emotional, and behavioral skills of principal investigators at research universities. Your responses will be anonymous and you can enter a drawing to win one of two iPads. Here is the link to the survey.

The study includes an online training, 3-week free use of Google Home Mini at home, weekly 10-min online surveys, and an interview at the end. You will receive the device and $20 after the final interview. You are eligible if older than 65, speak English, have wifi, and have not owned Amazon Alexa or Google Home for more than one month. Please contact 312-996-8822 or kquinn8@uic.edu for more info.

We are looking for individuals with no known hearing loss to participate in research exploring how information received by the left and right ear is combined by the brain. Compensation of $15 an hour for an estimated 2-3 hours of participation. Email binauralhearinglab@gmail.com or call (217) 244-2154.