Mobile unit services include: driver’s license and state ID card (renewal, replacement, corrections), vehicle stickers; passenger, B-truck, motorcycle and collegiate license plates; vehicle title and registration; organ/tissue donor registration; and parking placards for persons with disabilities. Nov. 30, 10 am–3 pm in the Illini Union Room 210.

OLLI at Illinois is offering a free sampling of lectures and study groups at our M2 location and via Zoom. Monday, December 5 – Friday, December 9, 2022. Join OLLI members and staff to hear about all the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute has to offer – and how you can get involved. For more information or to register: email olli@illinois.edu; call 217-244-9141 or visit https://olli.illinois.edu 

All drivers of unlicensed motorized vehicles (e.g., golf carts, Gators) need to meet the requirements for operating them as established by the State of Illinois and register with a unit executive officer before performing operations on campus (Public safety officials are exempt). Drivers must read and sign the Campus Unlicensed Motorized Vehicle Driver's Brief. Click above for the full policy. 

Reflect on how our responsibilities, interests & needs as faculty have evolved; learn strategies & lessons on navigating a "new normal" world. This session will provide space for assistant professors to exchange information, gain skills & knowledge on managing work relationships & connect with colleagues & resources across campus & our community. A group mentoring in-person session. Register here

Join us for a continuous screening over three days, December 1-3, of videos produced for Visual AIDS Day With(Out) Art. The hour-long, looped program of artist-made films highlights under-told stories of HIV and AIDS from the perspective of artists across the world. See them on the lower level of the museum, with seating available for individuals and small groups up to 15 people.

Eric J. Garcia, Keith Knight & Ann Telnaes "Political Cartoons in an Age of Fake News: Getting Laughs While Speaking Truth to Power"

The Center for Social and Behavioral Science will be hosting a virtual info session on December 8 from 12-1 p.m. for graduate students interested in learning more about the Policy and Research Legislative Fellows Program. Register using the Zoom link here. The application period for the Summer 2023 and 2023-24 Academic Year is now open and closes on December 31. Apply here.

Catch the fall senior thesis concert, Intertwined Frequencies, showcasing the choreography of Jade Katch, Katherine Henderson, Melanie DuBois, Jordyn Gibson, Jasmine Chavez, and Prishina Coleman. Free admission.

While many campus programs and units provide experiential learning opportunities for students, many of us lack connection to each other. Would you like to join a group to swap ideas, learn about other units’ experiential learning efforts, and share resources? It is open to any faculty or staff involved in experiential learning. Express interest to assist with planning or join future meetings here.

Nathiya Vaithiyalingam Chandrasekaran and Marcin Wozniak will each present their postdoctoral research at the Beckman Institute Director's Seminar at noon on Thursday, Dec. 1 in 1005 Beckman and on Zoom. Lunch will be provided; registration is required.

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. Sessions are held in person and virtually via Zoom. Register for one of these sessions at https://go.illinois.edu/RJAA 

Join us for a lectue by Dr. Scott Gehlbach entitled "Contact, Threat, and Violence During Political Upheaval: Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the 1905 Russian Revolution," cosponsored by the Department of Political Science, REEEC, and CGS!

Join Rebekah Yang, systems engineer at CNA, as she presents in-person at the Fall 2022 Kent Seminar Series Thursday, Dec. 1, from 2-3 p.m. (CT).  Pizza and soft drinks will be provided beginning at 1:30 p.m. in the ICT Classroom. 

This talk etches out a narrative of the developing musical practices and identities of Kirishitan (Japanese Christian) communities that began to take shape in the early decades of their formation. It speaks to the need for intercultural methodologies that facilitate a more nuanced understanding of “Western” music as produced, interpreted, and reformed by entanglements of the early modern world.

Join the Physics Department for this fall's Saturday Physics for Everyone on Saturday, the 3rd. This in-person lecture series continues with Professor Angela Kou's "How to Build a Quantum Computer Using Aluminum". 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!

Join us on Zoom this Thursday at 3 p.m. to hear from Richard Y. Zhang, an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UIUC, on “Improved Adversarial Attacks and Certified Defenses via Nonconvex Relaxations.” C3.ai DTI's Digital Transformation Science Colloquium series features weekly talks from top scientists from academia and industry. Register here!

Hybrid is often called the best of both worlds, but data collected by Aimee Barbeau and Eric Larson (BUS) told a different story. Lunchtime seminar presentation will discuss the role of social context in the classroom, the relationship between autonomy and satisfaction, and the need for instructors to consider the whole classroom environment. Zoom registration required.

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!

What is the current state of affairs in Iran and in Western approaches to Iran? Is an evolution possible, either in terms of regime transformation or in terms of new relationship with the Islamic Republic? Join the EUC for a panel with prestigious experts on Iran to discuss the ongoing women’s protests in Iran and the evolution of International relations under the pressure of current events. 

Register now to attend a Zoom lecture by Eve L. Ewing, a writer and scholar (Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago) who uses multi-genre storytelling, tools of sociological inquiry, archives, and community-grounded epistemologies to interrogate racialized histories and imagine emancipatory possibilities. Part of the Interseminars event series

Join Aria S. Halliday and Shanté Paradigm Smalls for a conversation about their books Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture and Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City. 

Join James C. Benton and Robert Parmet for a virtual event celebrating the release of Benton's new book, Fraying Fabric: How Trade Policy and Industrial Decline Transformed America. Benton looks at how shortsighted trade and economic policy in the 1940s-1970s led to the decline of the US textile and apparel industries and how that decline led to 21st century populism.

Dr. Yu (Frank) Yang, Associate Professor from the University of Nevada, Reno, will discuss the reuse of reclaimed water for agricultural irrigation and modeled senarios of trace organic compounds. His and his team's efforts will hopefully shed light on uncovering the chemical nature of complex organic matter critical for the biogeochemical cycles of carbon and water reuse.

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!

A few weeks ago, we advertised the How’s my PI study. We have now revised the survey so that it will give you immediate feedback about where your PI scores on social, emotional, and behavioral skills, and where you score on well-being, and personality compared to other researchers.  We will still enter you in a drawing to win one of two iPads if you participate. Here’s the link to the survey.