The Illini-Alert emergency notification system will be tested campuswide at 10:05 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6. A separate test specifically for the Illini Center will be conducted at 10:35 a.m. Visit go.illinois.edu/illinialert for additional information and technical support. To receive prompt emergency notifications, add or update your cellphone numbers and email addresses at emergency.illinois.edu.

Our office will be open the following hours during final exam week for processing exams administered using Scantrons: Friday, December 9, 8:30 am - 5 pm; Monday, December 12 through Friday, December 16, 8:30 am - 5 pm. We will remain open during the lunch hour from 12 to 1.

Dial-A-Carol is an annual University Housing tradition where Snyder residents run a 24-hour caroling hotline. This year, Dial-a-Carol is Dec 8th – Dec 14th. Sign up to volunteer to sing here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0f4fa5ab2ba7f8c07-dialacarol. We post regular updates: Facebook: @DialACarol https://m.facebook.com/DialACarol  | Instagram: @dialacarol | Twitter: @DialACarol

Fac/Staff-Purchase your discounted 2023 Atkins Golf Club Season Passes and Players Cards by 12/12. Season Passes (Single-$1600 (reg price $2000), Couple-$3000 (Regular price $3800). Atkins Players Card $250 (Regular Price $350). Purchase over the phone or in person. For more information on what option is best for you, please call or stop by the golf pro shop during regular business hours.

Know a student leader who needs recognition for their work and efforts? The Student Leadership Awards and Scholarships are now accepting nominations through January 31, 2023. There is over $28,000 available to students of all class years. For questions, please contact the Illinois Leadership Center. 

The REEES (Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies) Peer Mentoring Program aims to connect doctoral students in all disciplines whose research is based in these regions. The program is open to current doctoral students, Master’s degree students entering PhD programs, and recent PhD recipients. For more information, please visit our Google Form application. 

Help bring holiday magic to a child! This year Gies College of Business will host a dropoff location for the WCIA Toy Drive benefitting Toys for Tots. Drop off a new, unwrapped toy at the Sixth Street entrance to the Business Instructional Facility on Thursday, December 8, from 7 am to 7 pm.

Don't miss the last TED Talk: Eco-Edition event of the semester! Eliana Brown and Layne Knoche with Illinois Extension will present a pre-recorded TED Talk on green infrastructure and healthy soils, followed by a guided discussion and roundtable opportunity. Come learn, converse, and network in a no-pressure and informal setting. 

Have you ever wanted to see the inside of the historic Allerton Mansion? Or hear more about the unique history of Robert Allerton and how he created his estate? This is the best time of year to do so with the Mansion decorated for the holidays. Cost is $15/person (Children 5 and under are free). Pre-registration is required. Tours begin at 4 p.m. Dec. 13, 15 and 20.

Get ready for this festive holiday event in the Allerton Mansion, where you will be able to blend your own scents to create a lovely festive candle. Professional candle artist Kayla Brown of Fire Doll Studio will lead you through a journey that includes a fun variety of holiday scents to choose from. Cost is $65/person, which includes one drink ticket. There will also be a cash bar available. 

Dr. Jeff Forbes from the National Science Foundation will present the Dean's Distinguished Diversity Lecture, Pathways to Broadening Participation in Computing and Information Science and Engineering, Monday, December 5, 1-2 pm in CIF 4025 and via live stream. Round table discussions following the lecture at 2-3 pm in CIF 4031.

Exams and tests got you anxious? Join the Counseling Center and University Library to learn quick and hands on tools to deal with test anxiety.

Join the Accessibility & Accommodations Division as Erin Metz, Accessibility & Data Specialist, discusses what you can do to be a Partner in Accessibility at the University of Illinois. Join us in-person or online to expand your accessibility and inclusion knowledge! Light refreshments will be provided.

Join ADA IT Coordinator for UIUC, Keith Hays for a virtual Lunch & Learn event. He will provide critical Word accessibility training to enable attendees to create accessible documents in an easy to digest way! Register today!

Join us for an evening of performance, creation, and poetry. Stuckey, also known as Dr. Reuben A. Buford May, will kick off the evening with a performance. Then there will be time for creative poetry activities and poetry readings. Feel free to bring a poem to share in your native language, or a language you are learning! Light refreshments will be served.

Registration is now open for the 2023 AgTech Innovation Summit on Tuesday, March 7. The AgTech Summit is a free interactive conference. This event features a unique mix of investors from throughout the Midwest, large corporations, prominent academics, growers, and startups to provide a well-rounded perspective on the future of AgTech. Register Here.

Homemade cookies, hot chocolate, door prizes and punch! Join us on Thursday, December 8 from 1-4 PM for Cookies at the Clearinghouse, our annual holiday open house for faculty, students, staff, families and the general public. Learn more about this helpful statewide lending library and explore the resources available.

Drop by the RBML (Main Library Rm 346) on Reading Day to hand-print your own holiday card on our relief printing press! Then, make your way over to Skeuomorph Press at the Champaign-Urbana Community Fab Lab (1301 S Goodwin Ave) to print letterpress text inside your card. Enjoy festive refreshments and get a (temporary) creature tattoo! This event is free and open to all; view walking map here.

The National and International Scholarship Program will be hosting an information session for high-achieving freshman and sophomore students to learn about the Fulbright UK Summer Institutes. The event will take place on on Thursday, December 8th from 3:30 - 4:30 pm at 1027 Lincoln Hall.

Japan House Bazaar is packed with an incredible array of reasonably-priced Asian-inspired items, such as pottery, kimono and yukata, origami crafts, handmade items, scarves, scrolls, posters, scrolls, books, prints, chado equipment, jewelry, furniture and more for sale! Saturday ONLY - Japan House's matcha cafe will be open and tea and sweets will be available for purchase.

U of I Web Conference is excited to welcome you to our December Workshop! In this session, Michelle Hassel will discuss different approaches and techniques to create engaging imagery with intention behind each frame. Together, we can continue telling the Illinois story in a captivating light through photography. Learn more about this workshop!

A new option for catering and food ordering is now available. The America To Go program contracts with vendors and provides a customized, online platform to facilitate catering orders while also managing the compliance and payment processes. Learn how to navigate this option in iBuy. Register for one of two upcoming training sessions on December 8 or January 10.

The New Frontiers Initiative, in cooperation with the Blue Waters project at Illinois, is hosting a webinar Dec. 7 at 10 a.m. with presenters Karin Dahmen (Physics) on “Avalanches: From Epidemics to Supply Chain Interruptions” and Yuxiong Wang (Computer Science) on “Mind’s Eye: Mental Hallucination for Open-World Perception.” Register here!

Journalism alum Dan Balz, chief correspondent at The Washington Post, will discuss the U.S. Senate Georgia runoff election between Democratic incumbent Senator Raphael G. Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker, with Colleen King, director of the Frank Center for Leadership and Innovation in Media and clinical assistant professor of journalism. Join us via Zoom this Monday from 6-7 pm.

Join ADA IT Coordinator for Illinois Keith Hays for a virtual Lunch & Learn event. He will provide critical PowerPoint accessibility training to enable attendees to create accessible PowerPoint presentations in an easy to digest way! Register today!

Join us on Zoom this Thursday at 3 p.m. to hear from Sewoong Oh, an associate professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, on “Do Meta-learning and Federated Learning Find Good Representations?” C3.ai DTI's Digital Transformation Science Colloquium series features weekly talks from top scientists from academia and industry. Register here!

This webinar will discuss use of geomembranes in embankment, concrete, masonry, and roller compacted concrete dams as part of a geosynthetic barrier system. Uses of geosynthetic barrier systems in construction of new dams and rehabilitation of existing dams will be discussed. Finally, an overview of geomembrane applications in dams and reservoirs for artificial snow systems will be addressed.

Please join us for the University Archives' monthly Women in Science Lecture Series on December 8 from 12 -1 pm. Dr. Clarion Mendes, Clinical Assistant Professor of Speech and Hearing Science, will present on her work on speech-language pathology and gender affirming communication for transgender individuals. Please register to receive the Zoom link.

Travel can have different meanings for us. For some, it is relaxing on a beach after taking a break from everyday responsibilities and, for others, it's finding a great campground/space in their favorite park. In this webinar, we will cover ways to develop your travel spending plan, saving tips, and suggestions for making your next adventure more financially feasible. Registration required.

Dr. Sergey Paltsev, Deputy Director at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Joint Program on the Science & Policy of Global Change, will present on the role for carbon capture & storage (CCS) in a portfolio of mitigation options. Using examples from the MIT Economic Projection & Policy Analysis (EPPA) model, he will examine long-term scenarios to explore factors influencing CCS deployment. 

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!

You will be asked to evaluate common consumption scenarios and some products in the session. Participants who complete this 10-minute or less study will be entered into a raffle for 1 of 5 $50 dollar Amazon gift cards! New Panelists completing this study as their first Panel survey will also receive a $5 Amazon ecode. Sign up at: go.gies.illinois.edu/Panel  

Seeking participants who have visited New York City. This study involves watching a virtual NYC tour at our lab and taking surveys. Your participation lasts about 15 mins. You will be rewarded with a free coffee gift card and have a chance to enter a drawing for one of the $20 gift cards. For more details, click on the title of this post.

Seeking 8-11 year-old English-speaking children in dual immersion schools and Spanish-speaking children in English-only schools for a study of bilingualism. Participants complete tasks in English and in Spanish in our lab (Foreign Language Building, G70) or via Zoom. We pay $10/hour (maximum $40). Email Andrew Armstrong at agarmst2@illinois.edu or call 517-648-6207 for an appointment.

This complete feeding study investigates walnut consumption, gut microbes, & metabolism. All meals & snacks are provided for 9 weeks. Blood & fecal donations required. Adults without food allergies/intolerance, metabolic or gastrointestinal disease, or medications that affect the gut are eligible. Compensation up to $1,000. Email fshn-walnut-study@mx.uillinois.edu for more information.

Did you give birth in the past 12 months? Have you currently or previously experienced stress, sadness, low mood, other sad emotions, and pain since childbirth? We are conducting individual phone interviews for women (aged 18-45) to learn how emotions and pain are experienced by women postpartum. Contact us today at (217) 244-9363 or sepppi-study@illinois.edu. Participants will be paid.