Wi-Fi at Illinois will update security certificates that allow you to join the IllinoisNet and EDUROAM Wi-Fi networks. Starting April 4, your Wi-Fi connectivity may be affected if your device was not connected properly. To avoid possible interruptions, build a profile on your device via go.illinois.edu/illinoisnetsetup. To connect EDUROAM, access go.illinois.edu/eduroamsetup. More details here.

The Office of the Provost invites you to attend the upcoming session of the Diving Into the Revised Provost Communication #9 series: What to Know About the Public Engagement Research Option (PERO). We will discuss what you need to know if you are a faculty member whose research involves a significant public engagement focus. Click here to RSVP no later than April 11.

The Civil Service Employees and Dependents Scholarship Program Fund in honor of Marjorie Beasley provides financial assistance to University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign civil service employees and their dependents in their pursuit of an undergraduate degree at an accredited college or university. Application deadline is April 4. Click on the link above for more details and to apply.

The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion is now accepting nominations for the Larine Y. Cowan Make a Difference Awards. Please consider nominating a person or organization that you feel has done an exceptional job in helping to make the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign a more diverse and inclusive campus. Deadline: May 23, 2023.

The summer workshop is a 2-day interactive event to support faculty members & post-doctoral fellows to enhance mentoring skills through discovery and understanding. The workshop includes (a) developing an intellectual framework for mentoring, (b) gaining various mentoring methods and strategies, and (c) engaging with others in a safe and supportive environment to solve mentoring dilemmas.

The next meeting of the 2022-2023 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Senate is on Monday, April 3, 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/20230403a.asp. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting.

Applications are now being accepted through Wednesday, May 31st for the SPaRC'Ed Research Administrator Certification Series.  All are welcome to apply, however, staff who perform sponsored programs and research administration duties and/or related work for their unit will be given priority.  SPaRC'Ed courses will begin in August 2023 and conclude in April 2024.

Beckman is accepting faculty and staff entries for its research image contest. Images submitted by Beckman affiliates or captured within Beckman's core research facilities by non-Beckman affiliates are eligible. Winning images will be displayed in the Beckman Director's Conference Room, posted on Beckman's website and social media, and showcased on campus and in the community. Submit by May 3.

In February, Technology Services announced that a 10-year data retention policy would go into effect for the Microsoft 365 suite (Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint) on May 17, 2023. After discussion with University partners and stakeholders, that data retention policy implementation will be postponed until at least May 2024.

This talk traces the belligerent history between Thailand and Cambodia over a beautiful ancient Khmer temple located on the contested border between the two countries. The struggle is noteworthy for its persistence over more than a century, its transethnic character, and its intersection with dramatic contemporary politics in both countries. 

The Czech Republic is the reflection of the latest developments in the entire European Union, currently facing a serious crisis, caused by Brexit, refugee crisis, coronavirus pandemic and the rise of populist tendencies. This lecture will address all these issues, with the further focus on the Czech Republic and other countries of Central Europe.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) transforms images with text such as scans of historical documents, or book chapters into machine readable and searchable data. OCR opens a realm of possibilities for research and accessibility. We will demonstrate the basic uses of OCR software, available in the Scholarly Commons, and you will get an opportunity to try ABBYY FineReader and Adobe Acrobat. 

This is a session in which podcasters learn tips and tricks for more advanced audio editing, including incorporating sounds effects, adding music, and more. 

Are you preparing for an upcoming conference? Need to design a poster for your class? This workshop will give you tools for communicating your research for academic conferences and professional meetings in a concise and visually effective poster presentation. This event is co-sponsored by the University Library, the Writers Workshop, and the Office of Undergraduate Research.  

Dr. Dorroll will address the importance of engaging in reflective and self-care practices while engaging with emotional, political, social justice oriented and/or traumatic content in the classroom to ensure student and instructor mental health and well-being. Light lunch will be served. Registration at: https://csames.illinois.edu/future-events

In their 39th season finale, Sinfonia da Camera presents an eclectic collection of works by Fauré, Mendelssohn, and Mahler. Maestro Hobson invites you celebrate Sinfonia da Camera’s 39th season finale with one of Mahler’s most hopeful and uplifting symphonies

2021 Grammy winner Ledisi is a 14-time Grammy-nominated powerhouse vocalist with a career spanning almost two decades. Over her career she's garnered three Soul Train Music awards, an NAACP Theater Award, and 13 NAACP Image Award nominations. Most recently, Ledisi received two LA Alliance Ovation Award nominations, one for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.

Join us on Friday, April 7, at 2:30pm in Rm 108 Coble Hall or via zoom: https://go.illinois.edu/DrWortmann (Meeting ID: 864 0736 5970 | Password: 281243) as Dr. Kimberly Wortmann discusses  "Ibadi Approaches to Muslim Unity in Tanzania Knowledge Generation" by exploring how the Omani diaspora in Tanzania has articulated Ibadi Muslim identity in the decades since the 1964 Zanzibar revolution. 

Join us on April 5 at 12 pm | Room 108 Coble Hall and via zoom: https://go.illinois.edu/AmiduSanni (Meeting ID: 864 0736 5970 | Password: 281243) as  Amidu Sanni discusses "The Manuscript Heritage of Sudanic Africa: Issues in Standardisation, Preservation, and Knowledge Generation." Amidu SANNI is the VC of Fountain University, Osogbo, Nigeria, and Professor of African and Middle Eastern Studies 

Through the examination of this case, we will consider how the handling of food empowered peasants to claim their own place in society by assuming control over the shogun’s kitchen. In doing, the talk will propose a new approach to social history of early-modern Japan through food and foodways.

Join Xiaopeng Li, professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, as he presents in-person at the Spring 2023 Kent Seminar Series Thursday, April 6, from 2-3 p.m. (CT). This semester we honor the legacy of Paul Kent with a special alumni series. Pizza and soft drinks will be provided beginning at 1:30 p.m. in the ICT Classroom. 

Join us for this special live event where Illinois graduate students share their remarkable research in three minutes or less. Cheer on the 12 finalists in-person or watch online via the livestream. We will announce our prize winners, and audience members can vote for their favorite to determine the People's Choice winner. This event is free and open to the public.

Join us for another great Science Café talk! Dr. Melissa Troyer will discuss her work investigating how differences in knowledge of and expertise with a fictional world affect how we perceive language about that domain, including how we access related information and understand the meaning of sentences.  Wednesday April 5th at 5:30PM at Cafeteria and Company in Urbana. Snacks will be provided!

The Democracy Summit keynote lecture by Professor Daniel Ziblatt on Tuesday, April 11 at 6pm in Greg Hall Auditorium. Daniel Ziblatt is Eaton Professor of Government at Harvard University, New York Times bestseller and winner of the American Political Science Association's 2018 Woodrow Wilson Prize for the best book in government and international relations. Registration is appreciated. 

Come with your children to the Latin American Story Time program to listen to bilingual storytelling in English and Quechua, sing traditional songs, and make a craft!

Presentation of the paper written by Ana Abras, Ana C.P. Fava (UFABC), Camila F.S. Campos (University of Milano-Bicocca), and Bruno de Paula Rocha (UFABC). Our article studies labor market discrimination and gender inequality in the financial sector jobs in Brazil. Dr. Ana Abras is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Universidade Federal do ABC in Brazil. 

As a band leader and co-leader, Brazil native Edu Ribeiro has released 13 albums so far and collaborated as a drummer with Paquito D’Rivera, Randy Brecker, Maria Schneider, Yamandu Costa, Hamilton de Hollanda, and many others. He has drummed on several Grammy award-winning albums, including Brecker’s “Randy in Brazil” and Eliane Elias’ “Made in Brazil” and “Dance of Time.”

Dr. Yasin Al-Qubati is a high profile human rights activist in Yemen and the founder of the Yemen Center for Transitional Justice. Dr. Al-Qubati is returning to the School of Social Work to talk about his memories, experiences, and his people's struggles with discrimination, corruption, and injustice, as well as roads he has pursued to bring about change in Yemen.

Join Dr. Courtney Dorroll for a conversation on the importance of self-care in sustaining ourselves in higher education and for employing self-care pedagogy in (future) classrooms. Dr. Dorroll is an Associate Professor of Religion at the Wofford College.

Join university leadership for the next step in our campus strategic planning process, the Strategic Planning Spring Summit on Tuesday, April 11, from 9 - 11 a.m., in the Illini Ballroom. The research-focused summit will feature speakers who will lead us in conversation about what it means to be a 21st-century research university. Learn more about the summit and speakers online.

Saturday Engineering for Everyone is an open and free lecture series for anyone – students, faculty, staff and the local community – interested in learning more about engineering. On April 8 Professor Rakesh Kumar will talk about new developments in computer chips with "From ones that roll and bend to ones as big as dinner plates: Some new directions in computer chip design."

In their 39th Season Finale, Sinfonia da Camera presents Fauré’s Pelléas et Mélisande Suite and world-renowned violinist Andrés Cárdenes in a performance of Mendelssohn’s beloved Violin Concerto in E Minor. The evening concludes with Mahler’s heavenly Symphony No. 4, featuring Peiqi Huang, soprano. Don’t miss Sinfonia’s Season Finale with one of Mahler’s most hopeful and uplifting symphonies!

The Online Student Services Watercooler meeting is Thursday, April 13th, from 11 am to 12 pm CST via Zoom.  Our theme for this meeting is on preparing students for an online program. Several departments will share what they are doing in this space, including Gies Online Programs, College of Education, and resources from our campus eLearning Librarian. 

Have you ever wanted to start a magazine, a podcast, an art gallery or any other kind of creative endeavor? Dave Eggers (BS ’02, journalism), who has started or helped start 14 nonprofits, from 826 National (a youth literacy initiative) to ScholarMatch (college access), McSweeney’s and The Believer (publishing), will talk about going the 501c3 route. Cosponsored by the Creative Writing Program. 

Join us for a conversation between authors Dave Eggers (BS ’02, journalism) and Daniel Gumbiner. A book signing by both writers will follow. Cosponsored by the Creative Writing Program, Department of English.

CSBS and the School of Labor and Employment Relations have partnered to host the Future of Work Research Showcase. Focused on the future of work and technology, this event will feature presentations on some early stage as well as more developed research by Illinois faculty, with the goal of sparking conversations and generating collaborations among participants. Lunch will be served. 

Have you ever doubted your skills or accomplishments around others? Join our workshop where we will examine the Imposter Phenomenon in depth and provide useful information for you to learn how to manage it! Register using this link, and join us in person in the Main Library room 106, or virtually.

The graduate edition of Image of Research, now in its tenth year, is an annual multidisciplinary competition celebrating the diversity and breadth of student research at UIUC. View the semifinalists and vote for People's Choice here. All of the winners will be announced at an in-person reception on April 11. Mark your calendars and join us to see the on-site exhibit and to celebrate!

TODAY! Join us for our MillerComm event titled Playing Across the Tofu Curtain and Other Conversing Intersections. Presentation will be given by Professor Tianhui Ng. Event will start at 2 pm in the Knight Auditorium at Spurlock Museum.

UIUC faculty and researchers are invited to a showcase of cutting-edge research and services offered by NCSA and discover the exciting, new campus investment in research computing. Engage with NCSA’s distinguished researchers and affiliates, explore potential collaborations and share your research interests and needs. Complimentary lunch and hors d’oeuvres will be served. Register by April 5!

Join iSEE and our co-sponsors for exciting events throughout the month of April to celebrate our Earth. Take part in a campus trash pickup, clothing swap, Energy Farm tour, a new Arbor Day "Favorite Campus Tree" contest, our Energy Conservation Challenge, lectures from experts on greenhouse gas emissions, climate change and pandemics, and much, much more! Visit iSEE's Earth Month page for details!

The Radiation and Laser Safety Committee will hold an open forum via Zoom on Thursday, April 6th at 2:15 p.m. to present a brief overview of the radiation and laser safety (RLS) program and address any community questions and concerns you may have regarding RLS on campus. Please email Lowre Young at ldyoung1@illinois.edu by 12:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 5th, to receive the Zoom invitation. 

Jozien Goense, Associate Professor of Psychology at Illinois, will present  "Cortical layer specific functional MRI at ultra-high field" on Wednesday, April 5, 2023 at 4:00 pm in 2269 Beckman Institute and Zoom. Charles Marchini, MBM trainee and Ph.D. candidate will give an introduction.  The lecture is free and open to the public courtesy of the Miniature Brain Machinery Program.

A decolonial feminist geographical framework for critical geography at the hemispheric scale. Dr. Sofía Zaragocín (Geography, Universidad San Francisco de Quito). Across the Americas, there are common narratives and praxis on decolonial place-making. In this talk, Sofia will explore what a decolonial feminist geographical framework looks like for critical geography at the hemispheric scale 

The School of Art & Design will host the 2023 Master of Fine Art Exhibition and reception featuring works from Art Education, Art & Art History, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, and Studio Art on Saturday, April 8 from 4-6pm in the School of Art & Design Link Gallery, 408 E. Peabody Drive, Champaign and Krannert Art Museum. The exhibition runs through Saturday, April 22, 2023.

Reflecting on the rising interest in "women as peacebuilders", Dr. Johnson will examine the role of gender in extractive conflict, drawing specifically on ongoing work in the US and Colombia. Dr. Johnson is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at UIUC. Lunch will be provided for in-person attendees with RSVP.

Food and Culture in Latin America: The Case of Chocolate, Dr. Mariselle Meléndez (Spanish & Portuguese). We aim to read culture through the history and consumption of chocolate in the Americas to understand better its impact on the articulation of social hierarchies, identity constructions, cultural distinction, and power.  

In this lunch keynote, Dr. Aileen Marty, Professor of Translational Medicine at Florida International University, will explore the multidisciplinary approach needed to predict, prepare for and resolve future pandemics. She has decades of clinical and research expertise studying vaccines and infectious diseases around the world, including H1N1, Ebola, Zika, Mpox and COVID-19. Register >>>

Japan House's annual Spring Open House features Kevin Faris, bonsai Practitioner and Landscaper, and the Chado Urasenke Tankokai Urbana-Champaign Association. Japanese tea ceremonies and garden tours will be offered at 11am, 12pm, 1pm, and 2pm. A bonsai presentation and potting demo will be given at 3pm. Tea ceremonies require tickets but the presentation is free!

Please join us for the Dean's Distinguished Lecture featuring Tiffany S. Lee who is Dibé Łizhiní (Blacksheep) Diné from Crystal, New Mexico and Oglala Lakota from Pine Ridge, South Dakota, and a Professor and the Chair of Native American Studies at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. You are also invited to join the reception immediately following her lecture.

Join Françoise Baylis, PhD, Distinguished Research Professor Emerita, Dalhousie University for her talk "Designer Babies: What are they & do we want them?" at the I Hotel, Chancellor Ballroom. A reception will immediately follow. Co-sponsored by the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and the Humanities Research Institute, part of the Distinguished Public Lecture in Genomics series.

Visiting artist David Shrobe will discuss his work in this public talk. Shrobe creates multi-layered portraits and assemblage paintings made in part from everyday materials that he finds in multiple geographies, and especially from around his familial home. This talk is part of the Interseminars event series.

Is this a good journal to publish in? Should I be concerned about predatory practices? Participants in this workshop will learn features to look for when evaluating publication opportunities in order to make an informed choice about where to submit research. Participants will also understand the utility and drawbacks of different journal ranking metrics as a way to evaluate quality.

In this session, we will talk about finding demographic and population data and statistics with a focus on the Decennial Census and American Community Survey. We will also explore sources in other subject areas (health, education, economy, etc.)  that contain demographic information as well as international statistics and data.

Learn the basics of Illinois REDCap and how it can be used for the collection of research data, including how to create projects, instruments, and surveys and how to start collecting research data. It is recommended, not required, to have a REDCap account prior to the workshop. Accessing Illinois REDCap here: https://healthinstitute.illinois.edu/redcap. No prior REDCap experience is necessary.

NCSA and NVIDIA are hosting a workshop to give you hands-on experience accelerating Python codes with NVIDIA GPUs. Three main categories will be discussed: drop-in replacements for SciPy and NumPy with CuPy, acceleration for data science workloads using NVIDIA RAPIDS, and custom accelerated code using Numba. Registration is required by April 11, 2023. To register, use this registration form. 

IHSI’s three-part 2023 Achieving Equity Series is focused on equity issues and funding opportunities related to substance use and addiction, including barriers to care, service utilization, and risk and resilience in underrepresented populations. In this final session, program officials from the National Institute on Drug Abuse will discuss federal research funding opportunities with NIDA.

Student surveys report they enjoy learning by doing over other approaches in the classroom. Reviewing others' work while providing guidance builds empathy among classmates and can be easily done using Canvas Peer Review. Register for the next lunchtime seminar with Yvonne Gonzales Redman (School of Music) as she demonstrates how she uses Canvas Peer Review in her assignments.

Please join us for our Conspiracy, Misinformation, and the Infodemic Initiative presentation given by Marcia McNutt, President of National Academy of Sciences. Presentation will be on Zoom at 7:00 PM on April 2nd.

Join Weights and Biases Machine Learning Engineer Andrea Parker for an online workshop April 5 at 3 p.m. that includes a W&B introduction and product walkthrough focusing on Experiment tracking, W&B Tables, Sweeps, Artifacts, Dashboards/Reports and Integrations. It will be followed by a Colab classification competition in Kaggle with swag for top submissions. Sign up!

This workshop will be composed of three sessions that explore parallel programming and computing on HPC systems at the introductory level. Attendees will learn how to parallelize and run C/C++/Fortran applications using shared memory (OpenMP) and distributed memory (MPI) frameworks. Register by April 6 and find more information with this link.

Drs. Liza Berdychevsky & Wendy Bartlo will present a seminar about older adults and ageism. Participants will learn about how ageism is expressed in everyday language, interactions, and humor and why ageism is harmful to people of all ages. There will be a special emphasis on ageism as it relates to sexual health and wellness in older adults.  Advance registration is required.

Please join us for Episode 7 of the Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) speaker series sponsored by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation. This week, Patty Jones, assistant vice chancellor for research compliance, will speak on the topic of authorship and publication ethics.

We’re back to bust more psychology and neuroscience myths! Dive into questions about multitasking and attention, as well as brain plasticity and the integrity of our memories.

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!

Participants needed for a study about a new medication management app designed for older adults with mild cognitive challenges. Participants must be age 60+, have mild problems with memory, thinking, or concentration, take medications for hypertension or high cholesterol, use a smartphone, and speak and read English. Participants will be compensated. If interested, contact medmanage@illinois.edu

We are running a paid research study (IRB #23693) about improving people’s experiences of watching videos that have ad breaks. Participation involves a 15-minute interview in which you will watch a video with advertising and answer a few questions about the experience. Interview location flexible, and we will compensate $10. All adults 18 years or older are welcome. Click here to sign up.

The iCONS research study involves 7 2.5-hour visits & a daily gummy for 9 months.  Activities include height, weight, & eye health measurements, reading & math related questions, computer tasks, & parent questionnaires. Families will receive up to $370 with parking provided. To learn more, email iconstudy@illinois.edu or schedule a screening call to check eligibility using our scheduler link.

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.