The first meeting of the 2022-2023 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Senate is on Monday, November 14, at 3:10 pm via Zoom Webinar (Please note for security purposes, you must log into Zoom before clicking the link). Meeting materials are available at https://www.senate.illinois.edu/20221114a.asp. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting.

The Champaign-Urbana FIRST Lego League Robotics Tournament will be December 3^rd at the Natural History Building. This event runs on volunteers from across the University community. Support young STEM-enthusiasts by volunteering as a judge or in some other role. No experience necessary. Training is provided. Sign up HERE or contact Lara Hebert at wyse@illinois.edu for more information.

Starting Dec. 21, CITL will award a limited number of $8,000 grants to faculty and instructors to put their locally-produced course materials for Summer or Fall 2023 on the award-winning eText@Illinois platform. All instructor-authors are eligible, but those with large undergraduate enrollment courses (>300 seats annually) are encouraged to apply. Submit your proposal by Nov. 30. View the RFP. 

The strategic Health Innovation Visioning Committee was charged by Chancellor Jones to consider a research & education model that makes a significant impact on human health. You may now view recordings of the October Town Halls. Each meeting starts with an identical presentation by Prof. Stephen Boppart followed by unique group discussions. Please submit your input for the committee by Nov. 18.

The New Frontiers Initiative is calling for applications for its New Frontiers Graduate Fellowships that will run August 2023 through July 2024. The fellowships provide doctoral students with a year of full-time research support, a $38,000 stipend, up to $12,000 in tuition allowance and an allocation of 50,000 hours on NCSA’s Delta computing system. The deadline for applications is March 6, 2023.

Haiku poetry can be written anywhere, anytime, by anyone. It’s a kind of poetry that children can enjoy yet even accomplished poets need years to master. Learn more about Haiku poetry from award-winning poet Lee Gurga, author of numerous books of and about haiku, former president of the Haiku Society of America, and current editor of Modern Haiku Press.

The Office of Technology Management has opened a new round of funding through the Illinois Proof-of-Concept program (IPOC). IPOC funds projects that move UIUC innovations closer to public use and positive societal impact. Proposals welcome from all disciplines. Awards up to $50,000. Apply by January 6, 2023.  More information: https://otm.illinois.edu/IPOC 

The Illinois Leadership Center(ILC) is now accepting requests for CliftonStrengths trainings and other workshops on team development during winter staff and student retreats. Workshops are highly experiential opportunities with an ILC-trained facilitator. Descriptions of workshops can be found on the ILC website. Workshops are free for students. Staff should request information regarding fees.

Dr. Borge is an Associate Professor of Education (Learning, Design, and Technology) at Penn State University. She will be giving a talk titled "Technology-Enhanced Collaboration, Equity and Empowerment" as part of the TIER-ED Speaker Series. Please RSVP.

It is that time of the year for the Annual Thanksgiving Drive. The Office of Civic Life in support of the Big Give & Eastern Illinois Food Bank will be collecting donations to support over 1000 families in Champaign-Urbana. Donations will be collected through November 14 and can be delivered to Rm 15 of University YMCA.   Please register your participation at go.illinois.edu/holiday-drive  

Zakir Hussain is one of the world’s most esteemed and influential musicians. Zakir was a child prodigy who began his professional career at the age of 12. Blessed with a lineage of five generations of sitar players, Niladri Kumar is a world-renowned global icon. He is a serious exponent of Indian music and has an uncanny ability to make this music appealing to youth and audiences at large.

Join us for iSEE's November TED Talk: Eco-Edition event in celebration of America Recycles Day! F&S waste management staff will lead the discussion on zero waste initiatives on & off campus and share how you can make a difference. Together, we will watch a pre-recorded TED Talk followed by a guided discussion. Come listen & share your perspective in a fun, no-pressure setting. All are welcome!

Join us on November 30th for a workshop on "Monuments, Museums, and Memory". This event includes a panel discussion on Human Rights, Heritage and Memory, lunchtime roundtable keynote on Holocaust and Genocide Memory and Monuments-Remembering through Memory Activism. For more information or to register visit this webpage.

The Department of Religion and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion invite you to attend the inaugural Symposium on Religion & the Health Sciences, exploring critical conversations across religion and health care. The symposium will include a keynote lecture from Roshi Joan Halifax and moderated panel discussions with leaders in religion, health, and humanities. 

Brianna Wiens "Critical Design Praxis for Critical Times: Feminist Research-Creation Instagram Hacking" Register here

Each year millions of tons of textile waste end up in the landfill. Reduce your waste by participating in our free clothing swap on Nov. 15! Donate your gently worn or unwanted clothing and update your closet as part of America Recycles Day. All are welcome to donate and/or shop.

Dr. Russell Jeung, co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate, will be preseting at the Asian American Cultural Center's Food for Thought Program. He will be speaking about Stop AAPI Hate's work that started COVID-19 and continuing importance of their efforts. Lunch will be provided to attendees. This is the last Food for Thought speaker of the Fall Semester.

The AACC is proud to present a panel discussion featuring Russell Jeung, co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate (https://stopaapihate.org/), to discuss the impact of anti-Asian hate on mental health, families, and our communities. Panelists joining Russell Jeung include Teresa Mok, Kevin Tan, and Gloria Yen. David Chih will be moderating the discussion. Doors open at 4:30pm, the event starts at 5pm.

The Illinois Leadership Center will be hosting the Rolls-Royce Innovation i-Program on December 3 in the Illini Union ABC Rooms. This program is for students, both undergraduate and graduate. Registration can be found on the ILC website and will remain open until November 14. The program focuses on Innovation, Creativity and Diversity of Ideas.

Frustrated with the lack of data interoperability in agriculture? Participate in a cross-sector workshop on Dec 5 at the iHotel to help develop paths forward that include academia, industry, and small organizations across the ag-food supply chain. Co-sponsored by IEEE SA, the Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub, and the Illinois AgTech Accelerator. Limited registration fee waivers available.

Join us for the Distinguished Lecture at the Fall 2022 Kent Seminar Series! Stephen Ritchie, professor at the University of California at Irvine, will present via Zoom on Thursday, Nov. 17, from 2-3 p.m. (CT). Pizza and soft drinks will be provided beginning at 1:30 p.m. in the ICT Classroom. 

The potential to collaborate and innovate toward a connected future is huge. This session will provide an overview of the latest 5G development trends; what Verizon is offering to the business sector including enterprises and public sectors; and will introduce the hub that is located at Research Park. Lunch will be served starting at 11:30 am; program will begin at noon. 

"Why Did That Idiot Do That?" An Inside and Outside Look at Decisions Made Under Uncertainty.  Lecture by Dr. Harold Brooks, NOAA Senior Research Scientist.  Decision making under uncertainty is a common part of life.  Adding the difficulties of time pressure, asymmetric penalties for errors, and rarity of events for any individual makes it an especially difficult problem.  Lecture held in person.

"Kon and Pon: Part 2" A small fox and raccoon-dog meet. However, their families forbid them from becoming friends. How will they act? Are they going to overcome this obstacle? This warm-hearted story of friendship shows us how a raccoon-dog and a fox make friends with each other despite of their differences. This story is split into two parts. Please enjoy part 2 of this showcase of friendship.

Bilingual story: "Hats for the Jizos" On New Year’s Eve, an old man goes to town hoping to sell something so he can buy some special food to celebrate the New Year. On the way home, it begins to snow. The old man sees six statues of the deity Jizo (jee-zoh), looking cold. He decides to do a nice deed and then returns home to his wife. The next day, on New Year’s Day, the two awaken to a surprise.

During WWII, Japanese film editor Chounosuke Ise made many propaganda films in Japanese-occupied Indonesia. The purpose was to justify Japan’s hegemony in Asia, claiming liberation of these countries from colonialism. Chounosuke Ise’s son, filmmaker Shin-ichi Ise, traces the path taken by his father, who barely spoke about the war or Indonesia, and was reluctant to discuss what he had done there.

Come listen to a bilingual story in Mandarin and English! Bring your children to East Asian Story Time and enjoy a storybook telling. Co-sponsored by the University Housing and the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Illinois.

For more than seventy years, India has institutionalized its democratic political order to achieve certain objectives and desirable goals. The historical-contextual durability of the complex web woven through an intricate relationship between discourses, institutions and politics in independent India presents an interesting case to understand the success or failure of Indian democracy at large. 

Up your research game with a virtual meet-and-greet with campus leaders in digitization! This workshop will provide an overview of loanable technologies and digitization spaces, plus tips for organizing your digitized research material. Anyone who might be undertaking a digitization project is welcome to join us for this discussion. Bring your digitization questions!

The Cybersecurity Champions program is now recruiting new volunteers! Champions help spread the word about cybersecurity and receive prizes for participating. Learn more about cybersecurity and how to better protect campus. The expected time commitment is about one hour per month, starting in January. Sign up at https://forms.uofi.uillinois.edu/sec/91724865 if interested.

Join NCSA Graduate Researcher Priyam Mazumdar for an online training session Nov. 16 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 show how to use basic pretrained PyTorch models and then will introduce how to get started with using AI models from the Hugging Face ecosystem. Sign up!

Join us on Zoom this Thursday at 3 p.m. to hear from Gauri Joshi, an associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, on “Tackling Computational and Data Heterogeneity in Federated Learning.” C3.ai DTI's Digital Transformation Science Colloquium series features weekly talks from top scientists from academia and industry. Register here!

In this session, learn to identify burnout, understand common risk factors, and follow the latest evidence of how to address burnout in ourselves and others. Presenter: Carolina Carvalho, Ph.D. candidate, Industrial Engineering

Join this session to learn about the right size, consolidate, and migrate your relational databases to the cloud, creating a fully managed environment for your databases. We’ll also detail a complete database journey, migrating applications from relational to NoSQL.

The Collaboration Cafe is a monthly webinar, hosted by the NCSA-led Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub, to foster collaborative proposal development. On Thursday, November 17 at 3:00pm CT, the webinar will explore the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) Fellows Program for early career researchers in agriculture. Join to hear from recent Fellows about their experiences.

Join Steven C. Beda and Bill Robbins for a virtual event celebrating the release of Beda's book "Strong Winds and Widow Makers: Workers, Nature, and Environmental Conflict in Pacific Northwest Timber Country." Beda's book explores the complex true story of how and why timber-working communities have concerned themselves with the health and future of the woods surrounding them.

The Provost Office will be hosting open lab hours for Interfolio@Illinois on Tuesday, November 15 from 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. via Zoom. 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. Registration to attend is not required. You can access the zoom link here. 

We are conducting a paid study to understand your concerns about managing your health. For example, whether to get any vaccines (e.g., COVID-19), take screening, adopt certain treatments or health behavior. Participants will receive $10 for completing a screening survey and a 15-minute Zoom meeting with the researcher. See more information here. Please fill out the Screening Form. Thank you!

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). Contact nedase@illinois.edu if interested.

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!

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

We are recruiting children between 7-13 years to participate in the Liver and Brain (LiBra) study. The LiBra study examines relationships between diet, physical health, and cognitive function. Participation involves 3 visits to Freer Hall and the Beckman Institute. Measures include diet, physical activity, weight status, brain imaging, and a blood draw. Compensation will be provided (up to $200).