Graduate Student Appreciation Week is approaching and we’re gearing up to celebrate our incredible graduate students. Help us thank them by posting a message of appreciation to our Kudoboard and visit our celebration kit to find inspiration and more! Are you hosting an event for grad students? We’d love to hear about it! Tag us and use the hashtag #ILLINOISgsaw to help spread the GRADitude.

The Health Innovation Visioning Committee has been charged by Chancellor Jones to consider a new technology-inspired health research and education model that makes a significant, visible, and sustained impact on human health. To fulfill this charge, the committee will consider all ideas and input from the campus community. Please complete the online form and join an upcoming Town Hall meeting.

Check out the OVCRI's latest Research Report and explore facts and highlights about the Illinois research enterprise and the university's vibrant innovation ecosystem. And, if you haven’t done so yet, subscribe to This Week in Illinois Research to get the latest research updates delivered every week to your inbox.

The 2022 Annual Meeting of the Faculty will be held Monday, Oct 10, at 3:10 pm via Zoom webinar. This meeting serves as a central forum for discussing issues affecting us all. President Killeen and Chancellor Jones will participate in the discussions and answer questions. All faculty members are invited to attend; no registration required.

Know any current undergraduate or non-degree students who want to catch up on their general education requirements or increase their GPA? Please encourage them to enroll in a Winter Session course, which they can take from anywhere in the world. There's a wide variety of courses to choose from. The winter term runs December 19, 2022, through January 12, 2023. Priority registration begins Oct. 31.

The Women in Entrepreneurship Conference is open to students, faculty/staff, alumnae, and community members interested in entrepreneurship or engaged in entrepreneurship support activities. Keynote speaker is UIUC alumna Britney Robbins, Founder & CEO of The Gray Matter Experience. Open Call for Speakers for 50-min sessions for women to share knowledge on topics relevant to entrepreneurs. APPLY.

Flu shots are available to benefit-eligible faculty, staff, and retirees. Employees must present their university ID and proof of state health insurance. State employees must present proof of state health insurance and one other form of ID. Shots available at McKinley, M-F, 9a.m. to 3:30p.m. Visit link for more info and access list of outreach locations.

The call for abstracts is open until November 14 for the 2023 Emerging Contaminants in the Environment Conference on April 18-19 at the I Hotel & Conference Center & online. Examples include research on PFAS, PPCPs, micronplastics, agricutltural chemicals, algal toxins, & more in air, water, soil, & human environments. Visit the website for more info & submit an abstract: go.illinois.edu/ecec

The Technology Services-ICS Reservation System is now accepting reservations for the Spring 2023 semester. Reservation requests can be made by following the link above. Classrooms/labs can be reserved for individual dates or for the same time for multiple weeks in a semester. 

The Sandage Social Media Lab in the Charles H. Sandage Department of Advertising is offering weekly brand consults. Do you have a social media question? Curious about how to use social media to help grow your business or promote campus activities? Schedule a 20-minute consult with an advertising student! Bookings are available Wednesdays, 12-4pm and Fridays, 12-3pm, based on student availability.

Beginning October 17th, students can receive free and personalized public speaking assistance through the Library's new Speaking Center. Students can work with a trained Speaking Consultant to improve presentations, attend workshops focused on long-term speaking skills, or participate in sessions to build foreign language skills. Appointments can be scheduled through the Speaking Center website.

Marianne Alleyne, an assistant professor of entomology, will present "Insects did it first: multifunctionality of surfaces and structures" at the Beckman Institute Director's Seminar at noon on Thursday, Oct. 13 in 1005 Beckman and on Zoom. Lunch will be provided to in-person attendees.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Join the Women's Resources Center as we work towards ending dating and domestic violence through a series of events and programs that imagine and support a healthier and safer community for our students, and ourselves. For an up to date list of events, visit go.illinois.edu/dvam2022

This is the perfect opportunity to donate your clothing items and update your wardrobe! Join iSEE, SECS, and SSLC for this reduce/reuse event at the Channing Murray Foundation on Tuesday, October 11. Drop off clothes at Channing Murray the day before (10AM-4PM), or during the event itself from 10AM – 3PM.  All are welcome to drop off and/or participate (it’s free!).

Dr. Christopher Thornton, director of the Division of Research Programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities, will speak about grant opportunities and applications and facilitate a mock review panel. This workshop will be helpful to anyone interested in applying for NEH funding. A reception will follow. Registration and RSVP are required for both. Deadline: Friday, October 21.

What is the European Union for? What is the ultimate meaning of its actions, particularly its economic actions? Applying the conceptual framework offered by public economics to the exceptional case of the EU can help us better understand the economic logic of European institutions. Please join the EU Center for this brown bag talk by economist and Fulbright-Schuman scholar José Luis Gómez-Barroso.

Dr. Z Nicolazzo, author and associate professor of Trans* Studies in at the University of Arizona, will lead an interactive workshop identifying how to listen to, hear, bear witness, and truly be with trans students, faculty, and staff. This workshop is part of the OVCDEI Campus Culture & Belonging Series. Lunch is provided. Register for this workshop and learn more at go.illinois.edu/DrZ

This production features two stories about empowering the voices of young people: The Boy Who Could Sing Pictures and Nina Nails It. The performance features the music of Heitor Villa-Lobos and Astor Piazzolla, along with original compositions and arrangements by Daniel Kelly.

Join Andrew Dawson, University of Nottingham, as he presents via Zoom at the Fall 2022 Kent Seminar Series Thursday, Oct. 13, from 2-3 p.m. (CT). Pizza and soft drinks will be provided beginning at 1:30 p.m. in the ICT Classroom. 

If you're individuals who appreciate literary art & GOOD ORATORY skills, read poems in the original language of the poem or any language that pleases you, eg. Wolof, Kiswahili, Twi, Yoruba, Lingala, Arabic, Farsi, French, Spanish, Haitian Creole, Russian, Chinese, etc. If you're a poet, & loves reading/performing poetry or a connoisseur of your language & the power of the word, join us this year!

Join us on Wed. Oct. 13,12:00pm, as Dr. Crispin Cholwe, Senior Lecturer at the Chipata College of Education in Chipata, Zambia shares his experiences of developing educational programs on climate change for youth in Zambia. This is co-sponsored by Center for African Studies, Women & Gender in Global Perspectives, & UIUC Program in Contextual Engr. All are welcome! Click here to attend on Zoom. 

The Storytelling Series features faculty across campus who are teaching, employing, and developing novel qualitative research techniques. Our first session will feature Nikolai Alvarado, an Assistant Professor in Geography. This event is offered in a hybrid format, in-person in the Main Library, Room 220 and via Zoom. Registration required. 

Join the University Library and Counseling Center for the workshop, "Cultural Adjustment and Classroom Culture." This workshop is perfect for international students who would like to learn more about this topic. This workshop includes a presentation and an art therapy craft towards the end. Walks in are welcome, but registration is encouraged.

The RREC program will feature presentations by railroaders, consulting engineers, academics, and others involved in railroad environmental topics including: Compliance for Operating Facilities; Environmental Management Systems; Environmental Permitting and Planning; Incident Management; Remediation; Sustainability and Resilience; and Wastewater Management. Faculty and students can register here. 

Brightline is a private transportation company on a mission to connect city pairs that are “too far to drive and too short to fly” with modern, eco-friendly passenger rail. Brightline opened its initial route between Miami, FL and West Palm Beach, FL in 2018 and is currently constructing an extension to Orlando that will open in 2023. Register at: https://railtec.illinois.edu/events/hay-seminar/

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.

Faith, and Race in Building Local Coalitions for Justice with Rev. Michael Crosby, First Mennonite Church and Interfaith Alliance of Champaign County and Rev. Terrance Thomas, Bethel AME Church and Ministerial Alliance in Champaign-Urbana.

Join the university, alumni, donor, and Champaign-Urbana communities to celebrate the close of With Illinois, our most successful fundraising campaign to date! As part of the kickoff to Homecoming weekend, Grange Grove opens at 6:00 pm for free food, games, and entertainment. At 8:00 pm, we will put an exclamation point on the evening with a sky show and performance by the Marching Illini.

University Primary School, the Reggio Emilia inspired lab school of the College of Education at University of Illinois, is hosting an annual fall community open house Wednesday, October 12, 2022.  Prospective families, researchers, and community members may visit the preschool between 9:00 a.m. noon and Kindergarten -5th grade classrooms from 9:00 a.m. until 2 p.m.

Michael Strautmanis, '94, the Obama Foundation’s Executive Vice President for External Affairs, will present the 2022 Vacketta-DLA Piper Lecture on the Role of Government and the Law as part of Homecoming festivities at the College of Law. The lecture will also be available for viewing via livestream. Free and open to the public, a reception will follow in the Peer and Sarah Pedersen Pavilion.

Join us for the Illinois Global Summit in honor of Vision 2030: Illinois’ Global Strategy on October 19, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm at the I-Hotel. The symposium will explore topics and priorities outlined in Vision 2030 and contributions higher education institutions must make to support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals through keynote addresses and panel discussions.

Matthew Wizinsky "Design after Capitalism" Register here

Please join the College of Education for a meet and greet with the new Dean of the College - Chrystalla Mouza. The event will be held on Friday, October 14th in the O'Leary Learning Center, lower-level College of Education. RSVP at Advancement@education.illinois.edu

The Chicago Sukkah Design Festival pairs community organizations in Chicago's North Lawndale neighborhood with diverse architectural designers to create sukkahs (small huts constructed outdoors for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot) that amplify civic life. Visit 3 sukkahs that are open to the public from Oct 9–16 during a week-long festival of public programming, design workshops, and shared meals.

Professor Gruebele will discuss a few topics of current interest, ranging from specialization in science, to grand discoveries waiting to happen, to how making and using fossil fuels better is a big part of the equation, or the fundamental-applied pendulum that is currently swinging ‘applied.' Reception to follow. For more info, click here. 

Spend an afternoon at the ARC climbing wall with your child and register for one of Campus Rec's Kids Climbing Clinics (10/22 and 11/12)! Participants will learn the basics of rock climbing and practice their skills - no experience necessary. Kids ages 7-13 are welcome for the two hour course. Register in Active Illini - just log in with your netID and password.

Four of the country’s top political journalists—David Chalian from CNN, Domenico Montanaro from NPR, Vivian Salama from the Wall Street Journal, and Alice Yin from the Chicago Tribune—will give a behind-the-scenes look at what it’s like to cover politics in 2022, weighing in on the upcoming midterm elections and potential national outcomes. Join us for this panel discussion in person or via Zoom.

October is National Cookbook Month and Funk ACES Library has partnered with McKinley Health Center’s Nutrition Peers to bring you smart snacks and promote eating "all colors of the rainbow." Bring your i-card to check-out a cookbook, grab a snack, or both! Visit our online calendar to learn more about this and other events.

The campus will hold a Mental Health Wellness Fair, featuring university departments, academic programs, and student organizations that have a special interest in and services available to enhance the mental health of students, faculty, and staff. If faculty would like to offer extra class credit to encourage students to attend, we can work with you to facilitate that documentation.

Utagoe/音声, the title for this performance in Japanese, has several meanings in classical Japanese, two of which are the inspiration for this performance. The literal meaning of the characters, “sound and voice,” describes the elements of gagaku that will be performed, the instruments—ryuteki and kagurabue, two transverse flutes, and hichiriki, the double reed woodwind-provides the sound and songs.

This lecture will provide a brief introduction to gagaku (Japanese court music) and its cultural history. The introduction section will briefly explain the four genres that make up the music and focus on the instruments used in instrumental music as a prelude to the performance. The second part will focus on the cultural history of gagaku.

Jimmy in Saigon is a feature documentary by Los Angeles-based filmmaker Peter McDowell and executive producer Dan Savage. Originally from Illinois, Peter chronicles the story of Jim, his eldest brother, and a Vietnam War veteran. In 1972, when Jim was 24 and Peter was only 5, Jim died under mysterious circumstances while living as a civilian in Saigon.

The Provost Office will be hosting open lab hours for Interfolio@Illinois on Monday, October 17 from 9:00 - 10:50 a.m. in W115 Turner Hall. 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. 

Catch up with fellow University of Illinois Alumni with a bowl of freshly whisked matcha and a wagashi (traditional Japanese sweet) as you visit the inside of Japan House. Registration is FREE to visit Japan House, but matcha and wagashi may be purchased for $12. Interns will be available to give tours. Guests are welcome to enjoy the gardens and shop for gifts as well!

Join HRI for a public lecture presented by Lin Hixson and Matthew Goulish, co-founders of the Chicago-based performance company Every house has a door. This lecture is part of the Interserminars event series, an initiative supported by the Mellon Foundation.

Karina Rider, a postdoc researcher at Microsoft Research, will present "Building Things that Matter: The Ambivalence of Tech for Good Initiatives." In the Responsible Data Science and AI Speaker Series, we discuss topics such as equity, fairness, biases, ethics, and privacy.

Please join us for a webinar about recent changes to the DACA program, and how these changes impact students, staff, and faculty with or eligible for DACA status. How can we best support undocumented and DACA members of our campus community? Speakers: Dr. Gioconda Guerra Pérez (OVCDEI), Lauren Aronson (Immigration Law Clinic), and Mariana Ortega (La Casa). Register at go.illinois.edu/DACABriefing.

Join us on Zoom this Thursday at 3 p.m. to hear from Tom Goldstein, the Perotto Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, on “Adversarial Machine Learning from a Privacy Perspective.” C3.ai DTI's Digital Transformation Science Colloquium series features weekly talks from top scientists from academia and industry. Register here!

The HathiTrust Digital Library is the world’s largest, with 17.5 million volumes from research libraries around the world. The HathiTrust Research Center, co-located at UIUC and Indiana University, is the research gateway to this near-universal library. We will introduce its text and data mining tools, allowing researchers to computationally analyze millions of books.

Sara Benson, copyright librarian: Author's Rights: Retaining the Rights Important to You,10/10, 12-12:50pm; Alison Syring, University Press: Dissertation to Book: Basics of the Revision & Publishing Process, 10/11, 12-12:50pm; Dan Tracy, head of Scholarly Communication and Publishing, Evaluating Journals: The Good, The Bad, and the Predatory, 10/31, 1-1:50pm.

This webinar will provide insight into interface strengths that should be used on the base and sideslope of a geosynthetic lined slope and accompanying factors of safety. Numerical analyses will be presented showing residual, large displacement, or post-peak interface strengths that should be used depending on length and inclination (3H:1V to 6H:1V) of the sideslope.  1.0 PDH

U of I Web Conference is hosting an October workshop! In this session, Mark McCarthy will give some background of what ARIA is and how it is used. Participants should come away with a greater understanding of ARIA, when and when not to use it, where to go to learn more about it, and some basic understanding of the accessibility tree. Learn more about this workshop!

“Inclusive and Ethical” stands as one of the four pillars of our newly-adopted teaching excellence guidelines, yet it can be one of the most challenging to implement. This workshop will help you apply the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework to reduce barriers in instruction and diversify the ways your students engage with you, their peers and the course content. Registration is required.

Coffee and chocolate are both products that seem to be ubiquitous in the lives of people around the world. Access emerging research to learn about the potential health benefits of products - from cold brew to ruby chocolate and caffeine to flavonoids - and discover their impact on obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Presenter: Dee Walls, M.A., Illinois Extension Outreach Associate

Please join us for the University Archives' monthly Women in Science Lecture Series on October 13 from 12 -1 pm. Dr. Imanni Sheppard, Professor and Co-Director of Bioethics and Medical Humanities thread at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine, will discuss her work in developing medical humanities and medical anthropology curricula. Please register to receive the Zoom link.

This presentation provides a general overview of the “Propaganda of History” since the origination of public schools in the United States during the 1840s.  For more information, click here.

Join us on October 18 for Amy Allen's (Penn State, Philosophy) Modern Critical Theory lecture. Her lecture “Rosa Luxemburg and Marxism” will take place from on Zoom and registration is required. For the reading list and more info, visit our site: https://criticism.illinois.edu/events/modern-critical-theory-lecture-series

Join ADA IT Coordinator for UIUC, Keith Hays for a Lunch & Learn event. He will provide critical Word accessibility training to enable attendees to create accessible documents in an easy to digest way! This lunch & learn is part of the Accessibility & Accommodations Division series celebrating National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM). Register today!

Join the Accessibility & Accommodations Division for a virtual Lunch & Learn with ADA Coordinator, Allison Kushner. This event will focus on disability etiquette including best practices for interviews, recruitment efforts, communications and events. This lunch & learn is part of our series celebrating National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM). Register today!

Illinois 4-H launched a new initiative for an Illinois 4-H History project and is seeking to reconnect with Illinois 4-H Alumni to hear their 4-H stories and share 4-H memories. Join us to share your stories about growing up in Illinois 4-H during your 4-H decade on the 4th Tuesday of the month from 7-8pm via zoom.

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!

Are you formerly incarcerated? Have you engaged with UIUC since your release? If so, we would love to learn from you! Survey, interview, and focus group options available. Compensation up to $50 for interview and focus group participants. For more information and/or to participate in an interview or focus group, please contact EJP at EJPstudy@educationjustice.net or call us at 217.300.5150.

Seeking women (18-64 yrs) for study examining how feelings of contentment, depression, and appetite are associated. Must be non-smoker, significantly overweight, not pregnant or breastfeeding, and willing to eat chocolate. There will be questionnaires, interviews, and taste tests. Compensation will be provided (up to $265). For more info, please contact Howard Berenbaum @ ABCDStudyUIUC@gmail.com