Expand your professional circle through the IAP Mentor/Mentee Program. No matter your experience level, there is always room to grow, professionally and personally, while building friendships. Interested in becoming a Mentor or Mentee? Complete this FORM by Sept. 23 (IAP Membership required). In October, we will match Mentees w/Mentors and have a meet and greet to kick off the program for FY22-23.

The ILC is now accepting applications for the 2022–2023 Faculty Fellows Program. The ILC Faculty Fellows are a group of leadership scholars from various disciplines with an interest in leadership research and education. A discretionary fund of $2500 per year will be given to each fellow to support their research and scholarly activities. Check out: leadership.illinois.edu/research/faculty-fellows

The draft Summer 2022 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 five students must have completed the 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 217-244-3846.

This new directory is aimed at creating a centralized place online where the First-Gen community can learn about University of Illinois campus resources, events, and locate mentors who also identify as First-Gen. We invite any interested First-Gens to apply to join this directory.

The Education Justice Project (EJP) Academic Advising team is open for applications! EJP is a college-in-prison program that aims to demonstrate the positive impacts of higher education upon incarcerated people. If you have experience in academic advising, mentoring, and/or teaching you can apply! Please contact Aurora Cruz-Torres (tacruz@illinois.edu) to apply or if you have any questions.

The Illinois Club provides scholarships to outstanding students in the areas of global studies, humanities and social sciences, science and engineering, education, and art. You must be an undergraduate at UIUC and have earned 60 credit hours by the Spring 2023 semester and graduate no earlier than December 2023.  A minimum GPA of 3.0 is also expected. Apply by 5pm CST on October 15th, 2022.

Save the date for the virtual IT Professionals Forum November 2nd - 3rd, 2022 this fall! This fall's theme, "Building IT Together," focuses on how we collaborate together to create and build IT solutions inside and outside of the IT community. Submit your proposal via online form to have your topic considered. The deadline for submission is at 5 p.m. CST on Friday, September 23rd, 2022.   

The Illinois Space Grant Consortium (ISGC) has a variety of funding opportunities for Faculty and Staff for 2023- 2024. All proposals should align with NASA Mission Directorates, please see the ISGC website for full details.   The application deadline is December 1, 2022. Funding – Illinois Space Grant Consortium 

iSEE is calling for proposals to support interdisciplinary research projects on topics related to sustainability, energy, and environment—as well as for its Campus as a Living Lab program. The funding—up to $30K—enables development of ideas in multiple disciplines and departments; collection of preliminary data; and preparation of external funding proposals through iSEE. Deadline Oct. 28.

The Illinois Leadership Center is offering workshops for your student group! We will come to your classroom or student team to lead training and dialogue related to topics such as empathy and servant leadership.  See this year's leadership topics here. To request a program, fill out our workshop request form and someone will respond to you within three business days to give you more information.

Learn about how the Library works to preserve our collections and participate, hands-on, to see how some of our materials are made. See small book binding, Japanese paper marbling art, and “letter locking” (and learn to lock your own letters!). Also, a preservation expert will answer any preservation questions you have about your own collections and heirlooms. Registration required.

Hear from Alumnus Charlie Meyerson about his student experience at Illinois. Meyerson has won dozens of journalism awards. His Chicago Public Square was named “best free daily roundup in your inbox” in '22. His broadcasting career began at Illini Media’s WPGU-FM in Urbana and he was inducted into the Illini Media Alumni Hall of Fame in '08. Registration required.

Join Steven Mednis, Illinois Tollway’s general manager of traffic and incident management, as he presents at the Fall 2022 Kent Seminar Series Thursday, Sep. 22, from 2-3 p.m. (CT). Pizza and soft drinks will be provided beginning at 1:30 p.m. in the ICT Classroom. 

We are excited to announce iSEE's September TED Talk: Eco-Edition event hosted by Dr. Andy Stumpf, co-founder of the Illinois Geothermal Coalition and Geologist at PRI and Dr. Tugce Baser, Assistant Professor in CEE. We will view a TED Talk followed by a guided conversation about clean energy. All are welcome to join this thought-provoking discussion. Come as you are; no preparation is necessary! 

Join the Physics Department for this fall's Saturday Physics for Everyone on Saturday, the 24th. This in-person lecture series is kicking off with Professor Sangjin Kim's "Traffic of Molecular Motors on the Genome". Snacks will be served starting at 10:00AM and the lecture begins at 10:15AM. This event is free and open to everyone: friends, family, kids and grandparents. We hope to see you there!

The Human Library creates a dialogue and understanding between people through conversation. During this event, 'readers' check out a human 'book' to learn more about aspects of their identities that may experience discrimination, such as race, religion, sexual preference or disability. Attend...or consider being a book! Contact Sarah Christensen to volunteer. 

Plan to attend the Illinois Professional Science Master's Poster Showcase on Wednesday, September 21. Science + Business master's students will present their summer internship experiences from 4-6 p.m. in the ACES LIAC Heritage Room. Internship companies include Hill’s Pet Nutrition, Tyson Foods, Neste, General Mills, State Farm, and more. RSVP preferred by Sept. 20 to PSMdegree@illinois.edu.

Stop by the hallway outside of the International and Area Studies (IAS) Library, on the third floor of the Main Library Building, Room 321. Then stick around to study or relax in a quiet, comfy, bright atmosphere and get to know the IAS Library’s spaces and services! More info on the International and Area Studies Library here: https://www.library.illinois.edu/ias/

Lyric Theatre @ Illinois and Allerton Park & Retreat Center invite you to spend an evening Under the Stars in the beautiful Sunken Garden, listening to songs, arias, and choruses from the world’s most beloved operas and musical theatre. A limited number of U of I student tickets are available for $10. To purchase tickets, please visit the Allerton Park & Retreat Center website.

The Inaugural Daniel J. Sullivan Playwright-in-Residence Program Presents a Workshop of A Darkling at Nightfall by Mallory Raven-Ellen Backstrom. Evren Andraste is half human and darkling, raised alone in the wild by her father. This is a supernatural fairytale exploring the fecund feminine, the interconnection of Earth and Spirit, and the power of the stories we tell.

The Writers Workshop has moved! We're delighted to start this semester in our new location in the Main Library. Stop by our open house to see the new space, enjoy cookies and coffee, and have all your questions about the Writers Workshop answered. We'll have displays featuring our consultations, presentations, and student-led research. No reservation required. Please save the date and come say hi!

Join us to learn about research and creative projects by CAS Associate Marc Hertzman and CAS Fellow Lucas Wagner. A brunch buffet will be provided at all in-person events. For more information, click here.

“The Future of Work” Symposium will address the changing nature of work, the drivers behind these changes, and the impact of such changes on organizations and human well-being. We encourage faculty to join us as we connect researchers from multiple disciplines, explore external grant opportunities, and learn about the needs of existing research around the future of work on campus. Register here.

The Brand Hub is ready for another year of exciting events. We will host innovative virtual and in-person sessions with industry experts and esteemed alums who will share tips and discuss the latest trends in branding, social media and ad tech. Industry guests this year include Meta, TikTok, Meltwater, Slack, and more. Please join us and register for these events today!  

Kofi Bazzell-Smith, Graduate Student in New Media, College of Art and Design, and Professional Boxer: AZUKI!  Manga as a Bridge Between Cultures. See also Art @ the Y exhibition on view August 15 - October 22, 2022

The Chancellor’s Call to Action to Address Racism & Social Injustice Research Symposium will include a keynote conversation with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi on Thursday, October 6 at 5:30 p.m. The symposium will then continue on Friday, October 7 with presentations and a poster session of the Year One 2021-2022 Call to Action projects. Register by October 3. 

Join us as we host the VA for a S.A.V.E. Training and learn how to act with care and compassion if you encounter a Veteran who is in crisis or experiencing suicidal thoughts. The acronym S.A.V.E. helps you remember the important steps involved in suicide prevention. Register here.

Join us for a screening of Quinceañera (2006) with discussion by the exhibit curator team, Professor Angharad N. Valdivia (Professor and Chair, Latina/Latino Studies and the Institute of Communications Research), Stephanie Perez (Institute of Communications Research), and Ariana Cano (Institute of Communications Research).

SCD will be offering a series of workshops designed to help instructors learn about human-centered design and leverage the tools and processes of design thinking in teaching and research. This fall, workshops will be offered sequentially every other Thursday afternoon starting 9/22/22, run remotely to enhance accessibility and attendance. 

Come listen to a bilingual story in Mandarin 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 Urbana Free Library and the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Illinois.

In traditional Chinese poetics, resentment (yuan, 怨) is a prominent concept. A complex emotion between anger and sorrow, resentment is, at one and the same time, outreaching and introspective, personal and political, future-oriented and pass-obsessed. Throughout history, from Confucius’s time to the late Ming, at the most tumultuous moments, resentment erupts.

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 Wednesday, September 21st from 8:00 - 9:50 a.m. in 157 Noyes. 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. 

Learn about “Nanoelectrochemistry for Probing Fast Chemical Transmitter Release with High Temporal Resolution” in this lecture by Mei Shen, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Illinois, in person and on Zoom. Attendance is free and open to the public, courtesy of the Miniature Brain Machinery Program.

Join this session to learn about building, training, and deploying machine learning models for any use case with fully managed infrastructure, tools, and workflows. With SageMaker Studio Lab, learn and experiment with ML using a no-setup, free development environment.

Kathleen Pine, assistant professor in the College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University, will present "Feeding the Machine out of Thin Air: Data Crafting in the 'Data-Driven' Organization."

Join us on Zoom this Thursday at 3 p.m. to hear from Zico Kolter, an associate professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, on “New Approaches to Detecting and Adapting to Domain Shifts in Machine Learning.” C3.ai DTI's Digital Transformation Science Colloquium series features weekly talks from top scientists from academia and industry. Register here!

Join NCSA Research Scientist Shirui Luo for an online training session Sept. 21 at 3 p.m. to help users to get started with deep learning projects on HAL, the hardware accelerated learning cluster at NCSA. This tutorial will introduce the basics of TensorFlow necessary to build a neural network, train it and evaluate the accuracy of the model. Click here to sign up!

This webinar introduces the basic tools and resources for government statistics and data. Attendees will learn about the major federal government and intergovernmental organizations' statistics and data as well as strategies to search for government statistics.

Have a large research project, but not sure how to organize it? Want to structure your writing around multiple topics and themes? We will explore Scalar, a digital publishing platform, that can structure multiple paths through your argument and help you visualize connections between topics, themes, objects, and spaces. All are welcome!

Join us Sept. 23 from 12-1 p.m. for a virtual NCSA 2023-24 Fellows Kickoff Meeting! NCSA is seeking creative and innovative individuals to the 2023-24 Fellows Program cohort. This is a great opportunity for UIUC faculty members, researchers or anyone who may be interested in receiving seed funding to conduct new collaborative research projects with NCSA! Register here!

Join IHSI and the University Library Research Data Service (RDS) for a virtual info session to learn about the 2023 NIH Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Policy, expectations of the NIH, who the new DMS policy applies to, and how to comply with it. Presentation by RDS Librarian Sandi Caldrone, followed by a panel discussion and Q&A.

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, September 22 at 3:00pm CT, the webinar will discuss developing a workshop on data for healthy, resilient communities, using NIH/AHRQ support.

Interested in applying for the Humanities Without Walls Career Diversity workshop in 2023? Attend our upcoming information session on September 27 from 3-4 p.m. HWW staff will be joined by a panel of distinguished alumni. There will be time to ask questions, learn about the application process, and visualize yourself as a future HWW workshop attendee. Register for panel.

We are seeking research participants for a 2 hour study about older adults' perceptions towards adopting digital health systems. We would like to understand motivators or barriers to adopting new technology. Participants must be 60 – 85 years old, currently have a smartphone, and currently use an online health portal (like MyCarle) at least 2 times a year. Please contact mimit2@illinois.edu.

Participants needed for research study on effects of aging on brain activity and behavioral performance. Participants must be 18-30 years old, native English speakers, right-handed, and have at least a high school education (or equivalent). Participants will be compensated. For more information, please contact the Aging and Neurocognition Lab at mudar.lab@gmail.com or (217) 265-6574.

Would your young teen like to participate in a spicy broccoli consumer test? Compensation will be provided! To be eligible to participate, you must: Be of ages 11-17, have parental consent, be available for a 40-min to 1-hour window from now to Oct, and willing to try spicy vegetables (in reasonable amounts) followed by an ice cream rinse. Interested? Contact Emily by email or phone (630)433 8521.

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!

Are you interested in learning martial arts techniques? Participants (aged 18-45), who are low-active, will be asked to take part in an 8 week martial arts or resistance exercise training program as part of our study into the effects of exercise on brain health. For more information, please email us etcresearch@illinois.edu or follow this link: MATRICES eligibility survey

We're recruiting 8-12 yr olds for a paid research study about speech in noise ability. They will take a speech test in the lab, then take home a 5-minute game to play for 5 days. They'll return to lab for 1 more speech test. Total study time is ~2 hrs over 1 wk. Payment is $15/hr. Must be native English speaker & have access to computer/laptop. Game equipment provided. Email child-SRL@illinois.edu