Please attend We Remember. This is a Campus Memorial to remember Illinois students who passed away in the previous year. The event will take place on Thursday, September 29 at 5:00pm in Anniversary Plaza outside the Illini Union. 

CITL's Instructional Support Team is hosting weekly office hours to answer any questions you have about using the Canvas Learning Management System and provide support for your course. Join us Thursdays 11 am-12 pm on Zoom.

The 14-week Inclusive Pedagogy Certificate engages in online/in-person (hybrid) experiential learning to teach practical tools for designing and teaching courses geared towards diverse populations of undergraduate and graduate students. The program is open to all faculty, specialized faculty, and instructors. For additional information click here or contact imolina@illinois.edu.

Take part in our zero waste journey! Participate in the Plastic Free Challenge during Campus Sustainability Month this October. From October 3–30, we provide the resources and point system to help you track your plastic use each week and find sustainable alternatives. Take part and earn the chance to win a sustainability prize pack. It’s easy to make a positive impact! Sign up for the challenge.

The Research Spotlight Series explores the research process of scholars across disciplines by highlighting their scholarly works.  This series will run three times per semester. We are delighted to feature Professor Brett Kaplan (Department of Comparative and World Literature) as the first speaker. Dr. Kaplan will be discussing her new novel, Rare Stuff. 

In this session, we partner with the Writers Workshop to cover the writing process of a literature review. This session is open to all doctoral students. Please complete the form to register for the workshop. It will be conducted through Zoom. We look forward to working with you!

Doctoral students accumulate vast quantities of information throughout their academic career. Digital scans of articles, sources, references to primary and secondary literature, notes, drafts, and in some cases, research data. In this session, we will discuss strategies and tools for information management. This session is open to all doctoral students.

In this session, doctoral students will learn about general and subject-specific indexing and abstracting resources, search techniques, and research collections held at the University of Illinois and beyond. This session is open to all doctoral students.

Join us for this discussion on the publishing process. This session is open to all doctoral students. Please complete the form to register for the workshop. Zoom details will be shared after registration. We look forward to working with you

The Illinois Leadership® Center is seeking volunteers to serve as Cluster Facilitators for the 2023 session of The Institute™ by LeaderShape®. The Institute is a four-day program where students learn to lead with integrity while working towards a vision grounded in their deepest values. The application for volunteers will be open until Monday, October 4. Apply now to be a Cluster Facilitator here!

The Beckman Institute is offering three interdisciplinary postdoctoral research programs: the Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Beckman-Brown Postdoctoral Fellowship, and the new Cancer Center at Illinois-Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship. Fill out one common application to be considered for all three programs. The application deadline is 5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 21. 

The Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment is soliciting ideas for a Fall 2023 Critical Conversation on a grand societal challenge related to environmental sustainability. Multiple stakeholders will convene in Chicago for a facilitated, constructive, and inclusive discourse. iSEE provides funding, a moderator, and planning/logistical support for the event. Submit by Nov. 4, 2022.

Campus Recreation's group fitness team will lead these FREE classes that will be inclusive of various exercise abilities. Bring a non-perishable food item or hygiene product to donate to the food pantry (Food Assistance and Wellbeing Program) located at the ARC. Classes are on Friday's, 9:00am at the ARC. Register at active.illinois.edu.

If you are a history buff, love learning new things, and enjoy sharing your knowledge with others, consider taking our Tour Guide Training. Trainees will need to attend a general information session at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11 in the Mansion Library, as well as two practice tour dates on Oct. 13, 18, 25, or 27, all at 6 p.m. Registration is required.

Join us on Wednesday, Sept. 28 at 6:30 pm as Dr. Marvin Haire, Director of Gourd of Wisdom Institute for Action Research & Development and Adult Education and Curriculum Design Specialist, discusses "Searching for the Afrikan Roots of the Blues." Click the Zoom link here to register  

Ravi Jain’s remixed, reimagined, and bilingual Prince Hamlet features a cross-cultural, gender-bent cast—challenging traditional ideas of who can tell this story. Interweaving Shakespeare’s spoken text with heightened and poetic American Sign Language, this groundbreaking production creates a visually stunning retelling for both hearing and Deaf audiences.

Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra begins the season with the brilliantly talented Elissa Lee Koljonen to perform the mesmerizing Violin Concerto by the Persian composer Bezhad Ranjbaran. First championed by violinist Joshua Bell, this concerto has been praised for its exotic sounds and lustrous harmonies. 

Join us as we take a deeper dive into the revisions made to Provost Communication #9. In this session, we will discuss the new P&T diversity, equity, and inclusion requirements. The session is open to all faculty members across all ranks, unit executive officers, and administrative staff who support the P&T process in their units. Register here by October 4th.

The Illinois Modern Ensemble comprises students dedicated to the performance of contemporary and experimental music. The IME frequently collaborates with Lyric Theatre @ Illinois and also presents the winners of the annual Salvatore Martirano Composition Award, an international contest that draws over 200 applications each year.

If you have some experience as an HPC Linux system administrator and want to expand your skills, this is the workshop for you! The Linux Clusters Institute (LCI) will hold an intermediate-level workshop at the University of Cincinnati Oct. 24-28, 2022. Strengthen your overall knowledge of HPC system administration and get hands-on training! Registration is open here!

At Krannert Uncorked, Stage 5 is the crossroads to gather, make connections, and enjoy great music from 5pm to 7pm. The University of Illinois jazz program features a variety of jazz stylings provided by the talented musicianship of its students and faculty.

There will be two performances by the Chicago Immigrant Orchestra on Tuesday, September 27. Times and Locations: Afternoon Pop-Up Concert, 2:00 p.m., International and Area Studies Library, Room 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).

Stop by the Crop Sciences Harvest Open House on Sunday, October 2nd from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Visitors can sample salsa from produce grown on the Sustainable Student Farm; learn popcorn genomics and enjoy the buttery treat; plant herbs to take home; pumpkin and face painting; touch-a-tractor, and more. Free admissions; Maize food truck will be available for purchase starting at 11:00 a.m. 

Join us on Wednesday, Sept. 28, at 12:00pm, as Mary Gathogo discusses, "Reflections on Kenya's New Competency Based Curriculum (CBC): A Setback to Education Equity or a Panacea for Inequity?" All are welcome! This event will take place in person in room 108 of Coble Hall and via Zoom. To register to attend via Zoom, click here.

Do you have an interest in increasing efficiency in your department? Can you think creatively as well as systematically? Are you a leader and a collaborator? Are you a good listener and an effective communicator? If so, you might be interested in attending the Leading a Business Process Improvement using RAPID Methodology training on October 11, 2022. For detail information see the link above.

The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of more than 59 million pages. Learn about rare materials containing the original descriptions of plants and animals. The historic, artistic, and scientific materials are useful across a wide range of disciplines. Attendees will learn to search the BHL catalog and the stunning collection of public domain images.

Active Aging Week 2022 will be celebrated nationally Oct. 3-9. This week celebrates the benefits of active living at any age. Be sure to check out the great free events happening the first week in October in Champaign-Urbana. https://ahs.illinois.edu/active-aging-week 

The HathiTrust Digital Library is the world’s largest, holding nearly 17.5 million digitized volumes from research libraries around the world. Co-located at UIUC and Indiana University, the research gateway to that enormous, near-universal library. We will introduce the Center's text and data mining tools, allowing researchers to computationally analyze millions of volumes. 

Join Milena Rangelov, vice president of research at VitalMetrics, as she presents via Zoom at the Fall 2022 Kent Seminar Series Thursday, Sep. 29, from 2-3 p.m. (CT). Pizza and soft drinks will be provided beginning at 1:30 p.m. in the ICT Classroom. 

Japan House's annual Fall Open House features Tangerine Mountain Imports and Designs and the Chado Urasenke Tankokai Urbana-Champaign Association. Japanese tea ceremonies will be offered at 11am, 1pm, 2pm, and 3pm. A kimono fashion show and presentation on yukata will be given by Tangerine Mountain from 12pm-1pm. Tea ceremonies require tickets but the presentation is free!

We are here!:  Cultivating Belonging for our Queer Students of Color at Illinois with Dementro Powell & Carlton Cummings.

What will YOU find when you explore animals and science at the annual Vet Med Open House? Meet horses, hawks, lizards, and many more animals. Learn what it’s like to be a vet student and how to become one. More than 350 students put on this free event featuring over 40 exhibits and demos, including the Wildlife Medical Clinic ambassadors, Illini Service Dogs, horseshoeing, and the Kids Tent.

This training series is designed for faculty, staff, and students at the University of Illinois seeking to understand race and racism in deeper ways, promote racial justice, and dismantle systems of oppression through intensive 3-hour trainings. In-person sessions will be offered throughout the Fall 2022 semester. Register for one of these sessions by visiting https://go.illinois.edu/RJAA

The IDEA Lab is excited to announce we are adding podcasting equipment to our loanable technology! If you are interested in starting a podcast of your own, we will be hosting an introductory workshop. Register for the Podcasting 101 event using this link. We hope to see you Monday, October 3rd, at 10am in the IDEA Lab Commons on the second floor of the Grainger Engineering Library.

Join the International and Area Studies Library for our first International Cooking Show of the semester! For this installment, Stephanie Okoye will be cooking Egusi Soup with pounded yam. The show will last one hour and will be recorded for inclusion on the IAS Illinois Media Space page.  Participants are encouraged to ask questions and interact during the show. Register for the event here!

The Grainger College of Engineering Undergraduate Research in cooperation with International Programs in Engineering are sponsoring this fall's Engineering Research Fair and International Research Symposium on September 27, 4:00 - 6:00 PM in Illini Union rooms A, B, and C. Please drop by to see the presentations!

Join us on September 27 for Rosalyn LaPier's (History) Modern Critical Theory lecture. Her lecture “Environmental Studies: Land as Text” will take place from 5:15-6:45 in Greg Hall 213. For the reading list and more info, visit our site: https://criticism.illinois.edu/events/modern-critical-theory-lecture-series

The Illinois Leadership Center will be hosting the Petullo Insight i-Program on November 3rd, this Fall in the Illini Union ABC Rooms. Registration can be found on the ILC website. Registration will remain open until October 24th. The program focuses on self-awareness and self-management skills.

Do you have TVs or other electronics you need to recycle? Registration for Champaign County's electronics collection is now open! 7 item limit. Registration required.

Ivan Krastev (Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia; Permanent Fellow, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna) is coming to campus to give a talk titled “Russia’s War in Ukraine: Reimagining the East-West Divide in Europe” on Tuesday, Oct. 4 at 7:30 PM. Krastev will discuss how the war has replaced the Cold War narrative of the past decades with one of decolonization. See here for details.

You're invited to Neuromusic - Propositions from an Art-Science Convergence by David Rosenboom. Rosenboom is a post-genre composer-performer-interdisciplinary artist, whose work highlights solo to large-scale emergent musical forms, multi-cultural collaborations, interactive technologies, artscience, neuromusic, and more. Click here for more.

SCD’s Design Thinking Boot Camps serve as practical explorations of each of the five spaces of human-centered design: Understand, Synthesize, Ideate, Prototype, and Implement. These standalone, in-person events are perfect for groups who want to apply an aspect of human-centered design to a current project, as well as for those who want to explore human-centered design in an experiential way. 

The Provost Office will be hosting open lab hours for Interfolio@Illinois on Monday, October 3rd from 1:00 - 2:50 p.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 "Monitoring and modulating nervous systems in the brain and visceral organs" in this lecture by Todd Coleman, Associate Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University, in person and on Zoom. Attendance is free and open to the public, courtesy of the Miniature Brain Machinery Program.

At 12:00pm CST on September 29, join Dr. Cameron McCarthy for his lecture, "Thinking about Cultural Studies in a Time of Recession: Reconsidering the Work of Aesthetics in Modern Life." McCarthy challenges neo-Marxist orthodoxy with respect to aesthetic practices, arguing instead that such practices are at the epicenter of lived experience and the institutional practices of modern societies. 

Join us THIS FRIDAY at the preview event for the Playful by Design Fall Symposium, happening in late November. Our Keynote Speaker is Lisa Mercer, Assistant Professor of Design for Responsible Innovation at UIUC. She is a co-developer of the anti-racism framework, "Racism Unbound, which has been used to create a recently released boardgame, "Life's a Bridge." Friday  September 30, 2-3PM via Zoom

Join NCSA Graduate Researcher Priyam Mazumdar for an online training session Sept. 28 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 basics of PyTorch framework necessary to build a neural network, train it and evaluate the accuracy of the model. 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.

Join Maureen Warren as we dive into the next lecture in the CMI series titled, Citizens' Justice or Horrific Crimes? Conspiracy, Murder, and Printed Images in the Dutch Republic. To register for this zoom event, please visit cas.illinois.edu/node/2696

Seeking women (21-64 yrs.) who had (1-10 yrs. ago) Roux-en-Y gastric bypass or sleeve gastrectomy. Women must not smoke, not have any metal implants and drink alcohol at least once a month. There will be blood draws, MRI scanning, body composition assessments, alcohol challenge tests, and questionnaires. Compensation will be provided (up to $430). 

Would you like to learn martial arts techniques or generally become more physically active? Help us discover more about the effects of exercise on brain health. We are seeking participants (aged 18-45, low-active), to join an 8-week martial arts or resistance exercise program.  For more info, email us at etcresearch@illinois.edu or fill-out this interest form to be contacted by a researcher.

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.

The Adult Learning Lab at Beckman is seeking research participants for an at-home study involving games on electronic tablets. Volunteers must be at least 60 years old and fluent in English. Have fun and get paid! For more informaton, contact Ilber Manavbasi via email (tall@education.illinois.edu) or phone (217-244-7336).

Seeking 14- to 16-month-olds for in-person and online word-learning studies. Your child will watch a short video; we will record where they look while listening to sentences. You will receive a gift card or children's book as thank you. If you are interested in participating, please call 217-244-6098 or email lalab@illinois.edu for more detail.

The NHB Lab has an ongoing 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 Infant Cognition Lab needs children aged 17-23 months or 32-36 months for a brief, one-time, online study on cognitive development. In a Zoom appointment, children watch videos while we record where and how long they look. Appointments are available daily between 9 AM and 6 PM, and participants receive a $10 gift card. If interested, please email infantlab@illinois.edu or call 217-333-5988.