The PSLA is a system-wide leadership program meant to foster and sustain a culture of exceptional, dynamic, and transformational leadership at all levels throughout the U of I System. Candidates must meet eligibility requirements and be able to attend all four conference dates. Applications are now being accepted on the PSLA webpage.

Campus-level awards for excellence in public engagement are awarded to recognize those who engage the public to address critical societal issues. Nominations are now being accepted in the categories of Community (Members of the Local Community and Alumni), Faculty & Staff, and Students (Undergraduate, Graduate and Team) until November 1.

Are you retiring or separating from the university? You may defer a portion of your vacation leave payout to your 403(b) and/or 457 retirement accounts. Deferral forms must be completed 60 days prior to your last day of employment. Contact University Payroll & Benefits to complete the necessary form(s). Create a UPB Service Ticket or call 217-265-6363 for more information.

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

NCSA & the Delta project have announced an allocation award opportunity for Illinois researchers on the Delta system open now through Oct. 26. Delta is a research computing and data resource enabling GPU-accelerated computing with access to CPU resources & storage. Allocation awards will be announced in December and focus primarily on GPU applications but would not preclude a CPU-only allocation.

The Greg Gulick Service Excellence Award is awarded annually to two IT professionals at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The award honors IT professionals who exemplify Greg’s values and commitment to collaboration and servant leadership. The nomination form is now open through 5pm on Friday, Oct. 14. You may nominate more than one individual, but self-nominations will not be accepted.

The Audiology and Speech Language Pathology Clinic is offering free hearing screenings to all Faculty, Staff and family members. If interested, please call the clinic at (217) 333-2205. FYI: All University Health Insurance plans now include a hearing aid benefit and we are happy to talk with you about this more at your appointment.

The Illinois Supervisory Skills Program is an opportunity to develop self-awareness of management styles and personal biases, to practice strategies for resolving conflict and to build confidence in leading others through performance feedback and coaching techniques. Open to current academic or civil service employees with at least a 75%-time appointment. 

Openings for low-cost therapy for kids struggling with feelings of sadness, withdrawl from activities, 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.

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 if you are interested in submitting a poster and learning more about the requirements. The extended deadline for submission is Friday, Oct. 7.

Join Mohammad Miralinaghi, assistant professor at Illinois Institute of Technology’s Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, as he presents in-person at the Fall 2022 Kent Seminar Series Thursday, Oct. 6, from 2-3 p.m. (CT). Pizza and soft drinks will be provided beginning at 1:30 p.m. in the ICT Classroom. 

Mediaspace is a YouTube-like service that allows you to post and share videos, and can be used to promote your research, for teaching or outreach. You can upload videos you've already made, including Zoom meetings, or record directly online, as well as edit your videos and add captions. We will cover what you need to know to get started and follow up with consultation for your specific projects.

NVivo is a software for conducting qualitative and mixed methods analysis. You can upload and analyze text, multimedia, or survey data in a way that helps you answer your research question. We will work towards an understanding of NVivo‚ its capabilities, and explore how this tool can be used in your research plan. No previous knowledge of NVivo or other QDA software necessary.

The Hindsley Symphonic Band is the third of five concert ensembles within the University of Illinois Bands. In this concert, the Hindsley Symphonic Band presents music featuring song and dance throughout time. The Wind Orchestra will take you on a journey to Carnaval with a stirring premiere of Chavez, 1927, a tribute to American civil rights activist Cesar Chavez.

Now enjoying their 20th year together, this tight-knit ensemble is firmly established as an important voice in the world of chamber music. This concert will start with Charles Ives’ String Quartet No. 1. Next is the second string quartet of Jamaican-born, British composer Eleanor Alberga. The performance will then conclude with Mendelssohn's 1847 work, String Quartet in F Major.

Alfredo Rodríguez is a GRAMMY-nominated pianist, composer, arranger, and producer. After meeting Quincy Jones at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2006 and receiving an offer to work together, Alfredo emigrated to the US to pursue his dream of being an internationally acclaimed musician.

The University of Illinois Symphony Orchestra is the School of Music's premier orchestra. The Symphony Orchestra performs major literature from the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Musicians in the orchestra consist of the finest students in the School of Music, as well as exceptionally talented non-majors from across the University of Illinois campus.

At Krannert Uncorked, Stage 5 is the crossroads to gather, make connections, and enjoy great music from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. This event features two past winners of the Krannert Center Debut Artist award performing as a duet for an evening of uplifting music.

Join us on Wednesday, October 5, at 12:00 p.m., as Professor Hermann von Hesse (Illinois), discuss “A Modest, but Peculiar Style: Self-Fashioning, Atlantic Commerce and the Culture of Adornment on the Urban Gold Coast." This event will be offered via Zoom and in person in room 108 of Coble Hall. All are welcome! Click the link here to register for Zoom attendance.

October Dance 2022 features an evening of premieres coming from multiple international aesthetics choreographed by new faculty members Serouj Aprahamian, Alfonso Cervera, and Roxane D’Orleans Juste, graduate student Sojung Lim, and new Head of the Department of Dance, Sara Hook.

Mr. Whitaker is an Illinois alumnus with a BS in biology & MS in community health. He credits his experience at Illinois and his work as a volunteer in the Peace Corps for his successful career that led to his post as Ambassador. Join us as we welcome him back to campus to share his experience in the State Department & the important role of the Peace Corps in pursuit of world peace and friendship.

Uni Agora Week is from February 14 to February 17 this school year. During these 4 days, professors, community members, and even students are invited to teach Uni classes about anything they want. This is not a paid position, but it’s a great volunteer opportunity to share your interests. The application form is linked here and will be open until November 14. Thank you!

Students of Professor Emeritus Kimiko Gunji's class ARTJ199 Ikebana: Japanese Flower Arranging will be displaying their final arrangements at a free exhibition in the main room at Japan House from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Guests will be asked to remove their shoes or use shoes covers (provided) upon entering Japan House. 

Celebrate the season with a magical evening at Allerton! Join us for Opening Night of our annual holiday events: Showcase and GLOW! Enjoy an enchanting stroll on a one-mile walk through illuminated formal gardens, then warm up in the Mansion while shopping from local vendors at the Holiday Showcase. The Showcase continues Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 3-4 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Allerton Fall Artist-In-Residence Jackie Braje will offer a poetry workshop, “Poetry as Connective Groundwork,” at 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 10. The workshop will start in the Mansion Library and move out to the Koi Pond terrace. There will be a cash bar, and an open mic will be offered at the end of the workshop. Be sure to bring your favorite pen and notebook! Workshop capacity is 30 participants.

The challenge starts tomorrow but it's not too late to sign up! The registration deadline has been extended to October 6. Work unites form teams and compete to see which team can average the most physical activity. This is a great way to get more active and to bond with your colleagues. To learn more or sign up, contact us at wellbeing@illinois.edu.

Calling all young chefs! Illini Chef Junior is a cooking workshop that features seasonal delights while providing nutritional education to children between age 12-14. From preparing the ingredients to tasting the foods, these young chefs will get to make their own tasty creations while learning the science behind their plates. Click here to register and find out more about the program!

Come and listen to a bilingual story in Mandarin and English! Bring your children to East Asian Bilingual Storytime and enjoy a storybook telling of “Kon and Pon” by Masako Matsuno. This friendship story tells of Kon, a fox, and Pon, a raccoon dog, who live on different sides of a mountain river. Their families have never gotten along, but Kon and Pon’s friendship changes everything.

This workshop will raise intercultural awareness of participants who study or work in a multi-cultural environment by introducing cultural dimensions, intercultural communication theories and models. Through interactive discussions and activities, the participants will explore how different cultural values influence their own perceptions and behaviors.

Join the Accessibility & Accommodations Division for this hybrid event kicking off National Disability Employment Awareness Month with Accessibility & Data Specialist Erin Metz, who will discuss best practices for supervisors engaged in the reasonable accommodation process. This lunch & learn is the first event in our series celebrating NDEAM. In-person space is limited so register today!

Harnessing Innovation to Improve Business Operations is the theme of this year's Business IT Annual Symposium on October 20. Participants will engage in proposing a solution to business operations. Submissions will be reviewed by a panel of judges with winning submissions being presented at the Fall IT Professionals Forum in November.

Join the School of Art & Design for Frederick van Amstel's "Ethics and aesthetics of the experience designed for the Other." Register here.

Happy National 4-H Week! If you were a member of the Illinois 4-H program, you are one of 25 million Americans who share a unique bond. National 4-H Week is an annual tradition for Illinois 4-H youth, clubs and families. Learn how you can support National 4-H Week as 4-H alumni! Are you registered as a 4-H Alum? https://go.illinois.edu/4halum

Anthony Brown, Professional baritone and international peace ambassador discusses music, peacemaking and his upcoming performance of I Go On Singing: Paul Robeson’s Life in his Word and Song, accompanied by Phillip De Luna.

CAS invites you to Food for Thought and learn about recent research with CAS Beckman Fellows, Naveen Narisetty and William Schneider. A brunch buffet will be provided. For more information, please click here. 

Watch a movie in the Allerton Music Barn! Show up at 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29 for family-friendly lawn games, then stick around to see “Casper” in the barn. A discounted hotel rate of $150 plus tax is being offered that night. Book your hotel room by calling 217-333-3287. Saturday night event-only tickets (without overnight stay) will be available onsite for $10 per person.

Curious about Marcel Proust? Professor François Proulx (FRIT) and RBML curator Caroline Szylowicz will mark the 100th anniversary of his death with an exploration of his books, manuscripts, and letters. Come share – or discover – favorite characters, passages, and anecdotes. Free and open to all; refreshments will be served.

October is Campus Sustainability Month, highlighted by the Monday, Oct. 17, celebration 3-5 p.m. at NCSA! Join iSEE, student groups, and other partners for several other events (including a clothing swap and a trash pickup), take on our plastic reduction challenge, and help us learn about drinking water and plastic bottle use with our survey. All for the good of the planet!

Presentation-performance by Lia García, a Mexico City-based performance artist, activist, and educator whose work has been featured at the Annual Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute of Politics and Performance at NYU, Harvard University, and the University of Texas at Austin, among other universities and cultural centers across the Americas and Europe. 

Join us on October 11 for Cameron McCarthy's (Education) Modern Critical Theory lecture. His lecture “The Postcolonial Imagination: Tools of Conviviality” will take place from 5:15-6:45 in Greg Hall 319. For the reading list and more info, visit our site: https://criticism.illinois.edu/events/modern-critical-theory-lecture-series

Learn about "The role of brain specific tyrosine phosphatase STEP in hippocampal excitability and seizures" in this lecture by Hee Jung Chung, Associate Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience at Illinois, in person and on Zoom. Attendance is free and open to the public courtesy of the Miniature Brain Machinery Program.

Join us to hear Associate Vice Chancellor for Native Affairs Jacki Rand (citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) in conversation with Mimi Thi Nguyen (Associate Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies), moderated by Jenny L. Davis (citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and an Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies).

Interested in learning to calm your mind and learn new skills to cope with the challenges that life brings? Want to reduce low moods and rumination? 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. 

Pepa Kostadinova Atanasova, posdoc in the Natural Language Processing Section at the University of Copenhagen, will present "Towards Explainable and Accountable Fact-Checking." In the Responsible Data Science and AI Speaker Series, we discuss topics such as equity, fairness, biases, ethics, and privacy.

On October 4 at 12:00pm CST, join us for Dr. Maya Tudor's lecture, "Varieties of Nationalism and Democratic Consequences." When is nationalism a resource for democracy? Dr. Tudor empirically investigates this relationship and suggests that specific types of founding national narratives are more likely to undermine democracy.

Join us Wednesday, September 7 for another great Science Café seminar! Dr. Catherine Applegate, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Beckman Institute, will present her work on "Nanomedicines to target obesity-associated inflammation." Click here to join the zoom meeting.

Join NCSA Undergraduate Researcher William Eustis for an online training session Oct. 5 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 demonstrate how to use data loaders provided with PyTorch and TensorFlow and how to develop application-specific data loaders. Sign up!

The Central Asia Research Forum aims to bring together scholars in all disciplines and stages of the research process to discuss the theme of Language and National Identity. The Forum will be held on November 3 and 4. Those interested in presenting should upload an abstract by October 13 at 11:59 p.m., CST. To register and upload an abstract, please complete our Google Form. 

Do you have a data or library research task that you want done before the winter holidays? Join one of our BYOR Working Groups to tackle your task with company. BYOR Working Groups provide structure, guidance and accountability to help you complete your data or literature project this fall. Sign-up by October 5.

From the scientist working away in the lab to the tiny pills we see on the shelves at our local pharmacy, how does the pharmaceutical industry actually develop drugs? The pharmaceutical industry is huge and can be challenging to navigate but understanding how medications are developed can make us all savvier consumers. Presenter: Apurva Godbole, Ph.D. student, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Our lives are bombarded with negativity, stress, and countless threats to our emotional well-being, work, and close relationships. In this session, participants will learn about the common barriers to positivity and personal well-being and find out more about simple science-backed principles and practices or “happy hacks” to boost positivity, productivity, mood, and attitude.

Join us on Zoom this Thursday at 3 p.m. to hear from Eric Xing, a professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, on “Machine Learning at All Levels: A Pathway to ‘Autonomous’ AI.” C3.ai DTI's Digital Transformation Science Colloquium series features weekly talks from top scientists from academia and industry. Register here!

NCSA is hosting a virtual Fellows Idea Acceleration Workshop on Friday, October 7 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. that will help researchers accelerate and develop ideas for their potential collaborative projects with NCSA. This workshop will help fuel proposals and applications for the NCSA Fellows program due October 31. Register here!

Hear from colleagues as they share details about in-person engagement opportunities for online students. Gies will share about their iConverge weekend and the iSchool will share about their welcome weekend called Leep Online. You can share how you are engaging students within your college and to connect with others serving online students across campus. RSVP for a meeting invite.

Faculty panel (SPED) presentation: From Traditional to Ungraded: Student Perspectives on a Spectrum of Grading Practices. After exploring practices from letter grades to ungrading, panelists will share data on how grading processes impact student emotional health, agency, knowledge acquisition, and teaching pedagogy, and describe their efforts to develop a universally-designed grading scheme.

It's Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and the focus is phishing. Cybersecurity Training and Awareness Team staff members will take you through phishing training and interactive discussion via Zoom. Dive deeper into our training topic to better protect yourself and your data. Participants get credit for completing this quarter's required cybersecurity training and be entered to win prizes.

Fei-Fei Li, the Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, will give the Beckman-Brown lecture at 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6, via Zoom. The talk is titled, "From Seeing to Doing: Understanding and Interacting with the Real World." In her talk, Li will discuss her work that spans both perception and robotic learning, underscoring the importance of an ecological approach to learning.

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, and be 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!

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.

Seeking native English speakers between ages 60-75 for an in-person language study. Participants will read multiple sentences of varying importance and be asked to complete memory tests while their brainwaves are recorded. The study is scheduled for 3 hours and participants are compensated in cash ($12/hour). If interested, please contact illinoiscablabmanager@gmail.com.