Looking for a volunteer opportunity while meeting new people and having fun at the same time? The IEI is looking for volunteers to meet with international students for conversation and culture exchange for at least 1 hour a week during the spring and summer. Weekly meeting times are flexible. You'll be helping students adapt to our campus and you'll learn about another culture at the same time!

We are hosting this town hall meeting to engage with scholars on this campus. A free exchange of ideas and perspectives is critical to shaping our research experience. We hope through these discussions, individual scholars and students will be able to share their experiences, thoughts, ideas, and needs in an inclusive and open-ended environment.  All are welcome!

Teaching diaspora subjects transcends disciplinary boundaries. How do we approach the transnational networks of diaspora groups, their multifaceted identities across linguistic and cultural spaces in a teaching environment? Join us as we discuss curriculum development, course design, and language instruction for studying and researching diaspora communities from around the world.

Your input is needed for the 2023 CUPA-HR Employee Retention Survey to establish a national benchmark for workforce retention in higher education. The survey assesses strategies for mitigating the retention crisis. Your response will inform national dialog and priorities and our campus will receive the compiled results. Complete the survey by April 21. Click the link in the title to participate.

The Staff Advisory Council (SAC) seeks representatives for EEO 5 - Clerical/Secretarial & EEO 7 - Service & Maintenance. SAC serves the interest of Civil Service employees in an advisory role to the Senior Associate Chancellor for Human Resources. Visit the SAC Website for detailed election information and petition forms and procedures or contact Brian Farber at sac-ihr@illinois.edu or 333.3101.

In episode 5 of season 3 of Our Global Campus Podcast, Global Studies major, Stephanie (Steph) Lepak, shares how her passion met a problem which subsequently revealed her purpose. During her study abroad experience in Asturias, Spain, she learned valuable lessons in and outside the classroom that set her on a mission to advance sustainable tourism.

Do you use SAS® Software for teaching, research, or administrative purposes at the University of Illinois? Consider joining the exploratory University of Illinois SAS® Users Group (Illinois-SUG)! We aim to build a productive community of campus researchers and students that use the SAS® Software System. For more information, join our Channel on Microsoft Teams.

Please join the Grainger College of Engineering Institute for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) for the 2023 IDEA Conference poster session. This event showcases the Grassroots Initiatives to Address Needs Together (GIANT) program, which enables teams of students, postdocs, staff, and faculty to propose and implement research-based DEI initiatives.

Come join the third cohort of LAS Global Leaders at our Spring ‘23 Social Innovation Forum! Experience design thinking in the making as six dynamic teams present potential solutions to pressing environmental justice and sustainability challenges in Brazil, Kenya, and Germany. Space is limited! RSVP as soon as possible to reserve your seat. Light refreshments will be served.

FRIDAY, APRIL 28 – 12:00-4:00pm – PLAYTEST STUDENT BOARD GAMES!  Join Game Studies and Design on the 4th Floor of 614 E. Daniel Street for panels about game design, student-created board games, and our latest digital projects. Looking for a minor? Look no further. Come, play, and learn about Game Studies and Design at UIUC. https://go.illinois.edu/play

SATURDAY, 4/29 – 2pm - 4pm – LIVE-ACTION BOARD GAME AT THE PARK! UIUC Game Studies and Design students have made a live-action board game for Miles Hartley garden at the Arboretum.  Be a board game piece, roll the dice, and move your way across the park. Enjoy popcorn, fly a kite, and be the ultimate spectator - or part of the action! Admission is FREE! Sign Up Here:  https://go.illinois.edu/play

It is common to hear in Brazil that white Brazilians are not white in the USA. What can sociology say about this? What about the Black Brazilians? Historically, the big field of race relations has not paid attention to the meaning of race as it applies to Brazilians who immigrate to the United States. 

Join for the 2023 Renewable Energy Open House on Friday, April 21st from 3 - 5 pm for an introduction to Biomass Heating, Geothermal Research, the Gable House, and Agrivoltaics located at 4110 S. Race St. Urbana, IL. 

The School of Social Work hosts Dr. Brett Drake, professor of data science at Washington University in St. Louis, for a lecture on racial disproportionality in Child Protective Services, focusing on the differences in the rates at which CPS investigates Black, Hispanic, and White children and how these groups move through the CPS system. 1.0 free CEU credit available. Register.

Join us for a talk by Ecuadorian designer Vanessa Zúñiga Tinizaray who has created a design system modeled on the visual richness of indigenous culture. 

Join us on Wed, April 26, 2023, from 2 - 3:30 pm at Bruce Nesbitt AA. Cultural Center as Afia S. Zakiya, Ph.D. (Executive Director of Africatown Heritage Association) discusses the topic "Situating Africatown, USA in Contemporary Historiography Discourse and the South: Preliminary Thoughts Towards Recentering Africa and Community Voices"  Visit our website for more info on zoom attendance

Join us on Wednesday, April 19, 2023, at NOON and in RM 306 Coble Hall as Mussa Mwale and Chris Grady analyze the impact of decentralization policies on local governance and public service delivery and the challenges faced as a result of decentralization policies in Malawi. Visit African Studies web for Zoom registration.

Push4Art is an arts initiative focused on partnering Krannert Center for the Performing Arts with student talent on campus to create spontaneous pop-up performances. Find the Push4Art podium with a button on top of it (near Stage 5 in the Lobby), press it, and enjoy the performance!

Nikky Finney and Ruth Nicole Brown in conversation, with Janice Harrington moderating. Nikky Finney was raised during the Civil Rights movements and is the author of Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry, and others. Dr. Ruth Nicole Brown’s analyzes Black girls’ lived experiences. Her previous work has explored how Black girls conceptualize freedom, creativity, and relationships.

Join Max Ziyadi and Seunggu Kang of Lucid Motors as they present in person at the Spring 2023 Kent Seminar Series Thursday, April 20, 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 a screening of the documentary film Overland (2020), an exploration of falconry across multiple continents. The event will be preceded by a falconry demonstration on the lawn outside Spurlock Museum and followed by a Q&A with director Revere Le Noue and one of the documentary subjects, eagle falconer and anthropologist Dr. Lauren McGough.

Please join Tang Heng (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) for her lecture, Diversity: A Socioculturally-Constructed Concept. Tang will present a study of teachers' perspectives on student differences in Singapore to problematize how the words “diversity” and “diverse” are used in different contexts as well as illuminate how the terms are socioculturally constructed. Also on Zoom.

The Center for Global Studies and the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois present: Away From the Empire: The Linguistic and Cultural Shift In Ukraine in the Wake of the Russian Invasion. Guest speakers: Alex Averbuch, Yuliya Ilchuk, Volodymyr Dubovyk, Oleksandra Deineko, Olesia Bozhko, Yaryna Zakalaska, Serhii Yanchuk.

Join F&S and volunteer to count parked bicycles on campus Wednesday, April 26, 10–11 a.m. The census data that is collected will help update the campus bike parking map as well as be used to make future decisions around bicycle infrastructure and programs. Virtual training will be provided from 9-10 a.m. Learn more about the census here.

Join We CU to celebrate the students, service learning instructors, and community partners who have made an impact on our community this year! Drop in anytime between 3:00 and 4:00 p.m. on April 27 at the Alice Campbell Alumni Center for an informal reception with light refreshments. An RSVP is requested, but not required.  

Join Aerospace Engineering as we welcome 2023 Distinguished Alumni Recipient Richard Mange. Dr. Mange is the F-35 Chief Engineer at Lockheed Martin. In this one hour session, he will give a presentation about his career, highlighting his work on the F-35 program and how his education impacted his professional trajectory. Light refreshment will be served. Registration requested, but not required. 
 

The International and Area Studies Library's International Film Night is back! On Thursday, April 20th, Karel Zeman's classic Czechoslovak science-fiction film Invention for Destruction will be screened in Room 66 of the Main Library. Doors will open for the event starting at 6:30 p.m., and the screening will begin at 7:00 p.m. after a brief introduction. 

Online registration for the upcoming Residential Electronics Collection Event in Champaign County opens Monday, April 17. The event takes place on Saturday, May 20 at Parkland College. A comprehensive list of accepted items can be found here. The event is open to Champaign County residents.There is a seven item limit, and registration is required.

The Ecofeminism Summit offers programs designed to connect social justice, environmental justice, and feminist theory. The Summit (April 19 - 28) will explore the intersection of social oppression and environmental justice through events featuring Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, Dr. Rosalyn Lapier, and Students for Environmental Concerns! Go to https://go.illinois.edu/ecofeminism for more information!

Vanessa Zúñiga "Tinkuy: Meeting in Diversity"  

Professor Joseph DeSimone, the Sanjiv Sam Gambhir Professor of Translational Medicine and Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, will present "Light, materials and interfaces: The complex dance that allows CLIP-based 3D printing" at 11 a.m. Wednesday, April 19, in the Beckman Institute Auditorium. A reception will follow.

Shakespeare’s First Folio, published in 1623, gathered 36 of the Bard’s plays, including 18 that would otherwise have disappeared. Don your Elizabethan finery and come help us mark this 400th milestone: see RBML’s Shakespearean treasures, dare to recite a few lines, and “With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.” This event is free and open to all; refreshments & party favors will be on hand!

Student Affairs together with the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District (MTD) are hosting a "Campus Town Hall" on April 25, 2023 from 4:30 - 6:00 PM in 104 Illini Union. There will be a brief presentation from MTD Staff, followed by an open forum of questions and discussion. We welcome your feedback and hope you can join us! RSVP NOW at https://forms.illinois.edu/sec/307537982.

"Environmental Activism and Change on Campus & Beyond" - Panelists will highlight the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion in ensuring that our path forward in environmentalism efforts is a truly just effort, one that includes centering access and equity for marginalized communities. Conversation Cafe is part of the Student Affairs Lunch on Us series and is paid for, in part, by SCPF.

Dance at Illinois presents the culminating concert of the BFA Class of 2023, featuring the work of seven choreographers including Jason Brickman, Elsa Gaston, Noa Greenfeld, Kymani Davis-Williams, Aliah Teclaw, Derrick Rossbach, and Hannah Tharp.

Join Winifred R. Poster as she discusses the rising employment of women in information and communications technology using the case of village data processing centers in India. Winifred R. Poster is a lecturer in International Affairs at Washington University, St. Louis and Director of Labor Tech Research Network. Lunch provided for in-person attendees with RSVP. 

In this talk, Professor Albarracín discusses the disparate social, political, and psychological predictors that have been linked to conspiracy beliefs. A series of studies covered in Creating Conspiracy Beliefs: How Our Thoughts are Shaped identifies social influence and population anxiety as key to explaining why conspiracy beliefs are socially shared and how they emerge. To register, click here.

Join the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory for a lecture on April 21st from Timothy Ingold. His talk "Philosophy With the People In: The Trajectory of an Environmental Anthropologist" will be held from 3-5 PM in Levis 300. 

Paulina Alberto, professor of history at Harvard University, presents a groundbreaking study of race and power in Argentina with her book Black Legend: The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina. This book offers a compelling analysis of the complex intersection of race, history, and power, shedding light on how racial narratives have shaped Argentine society.

Join the EUC for a free screening of the film The Good Boss (Fernando León de Aranoa, 2021), a comedy-drama that reflects on toxic and paternalistic corporate mindsets. Starring Javier Bardem, this film was nominated for a record number of Goya Awards (the Academy Awards of Spain), and it closed last year's Chicago European Union Film Festival. 

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 22 Associate Professor Kirill Levchenko will describe how his team developed an app to detect card skimmers at gas pumps in his presentation "Finding Gas Pump Skimmers Using Mobile Phones."

Join host Chaz Ebert and accompanying filmmakers at the 23rd annual Roger Ebert's Film Festival from April 19-22 at the Virginia Theatre. The program for Ebertfest, “Empathy at the Movies,” includes 11 films, two shorts, 20+ filmmaker guests participating in post-screening discussions, and two musical performances. Film fest passes and individual movie tickets are available to purchase online.

This year’s Ebert Symposium addresses "Documentary, Violence, and the Media." Amir George from Kartemquin Films presents the keynote “To Be Radical,” followed by two roundtable discussions with faculty from the Department of Media & Cinema Studies and several guest filmmakers from Ebertfest. Free and open to the public. See program details and speaker bios.

Join us for a screening of Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968), an experimental documentary by Black Emmy award-winning filmmaker William Greaves that was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2015. Ebert Symposium keynote speaker Amir George, artistic director of Kartemquin Films, selected the film and will introduce it. Learn more.

Join us May 4 to see the latest research, network with peers and share work at our open poster session. With keynotes from Melissa Cregger, former IGB Fellow and Staff Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Edward DeLong, Professor, Department of Oceanography, University of Hawai'i, Mānoa. Registration is free, lunch provided.

Learn how you can develop the skills to become an industry leader with the new Master of Engineering in Chemical Engineering Leadership at Illinois. Register for one of our upcoming webinars for more information: April 19 at 8-9pm or May 2 at 8-9pm.

Please join us for a conversation in honor of Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day with artist Kevork Mourad in conversation with Helen Makdoumian. Reception to follow. 

Join GTU in a Roundtable Discussion with Ken Salo from the Department of Urban & Regional Planning and Michael Minn from the Department of Geography & GIS. Ken will be sharing his work on how local urban movements challenge persistent urban/spatial segregation and social injustices in South Africa.

Please join us for the Dean's Distinguished Lecture featuring Dr. April Baker-Bell, an award-winning transdisciplinary teacher-researcher-activist and associate professor at Michigan State University, where she works in language, literacy, and English education. You are also invited to join the reception immediately following her lecture.

Department of Atmospheric Sciences Ogura Lecture entitled “Clouds, precipitation, and organized convection: From land surface effect to a new satellite wind mission concept”, will be presented by Prof. Xubin Zeng, April 18, 3:30 pm, in the Natural History Bldg. Rm 2079. Prof. Zeng is the Agnese N. Haury Chair in Environment, at the Dept of Hydrology and Atmospheric Science, University of Arizona

Documenting Home & Community Knowledge Through Comic Strips, Dr. Monica González Ybarra, Curriculum & Instruction, University of Illinois. Maya American Youth do Well in School with a Strong Sense of Identity, Dr. Juanatano Cano, Los Angeles Unified School District.   

Reparation + Resistance: Digital Archives in Latin America. In this Speaker Event, we will have a conversation with two digital archives in Latin America that use their collections for constructing social, historical and political memory as reparation and/or resistance.

Brent Lewis, university landscape architect, is the speaker at the next F&S Diversity & Inclusion Committee Noontime Knowledge event. Lewis will discuss "Diversity and the Campus Landscape Master Plan in Honor of Earth Day." Join us on Wed., April 19, at noon. Register for login info: https://go.fs.illinois.edu/diversityandinclusion. Watch videos of past events at https://www.youtube.com/@UofIFS.

All faculty are invited to an American Association of University Professors (AAUP) panel discussion on promotion and tenure at UIUC. A panel of campus experts will make short presentations and answer your questions. This program is designed for assistant professors seeking promotion and tenure, associate professors seeking promotion, colleagues who serve as their mentors, and departmental leaders.

Dr. Lance Rodewald, MD (BS, '76, Chemistry), senior advisor to the National Immunization Program of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, will present "Prevention and Control of Vaccine Preventable Diseases in China, from Polio to COVID-19." Dr. Rodewald is the recipient of the 2023 Alumni Humanitarian Award from the College of LAS. For more info and registration, click here.

RESCHEDULED: Join Weights and Biases Machine Learning Engineer Andrea Parker for an online workshop April 19 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!

The Community Data Clinic at the School of Information Sciences invites you to a Speaker Event on Reparation + Resistance: Digital Archives in Latin America. This will be a conversation with two archives in the region that create collective memory to address social conflict and state oppression. The invited archives are Comisión de la verdad from Colombia and Londres 38 from Chile. RSVP Here! 

Join the International and Area Studies Library over Zoom on Friday, April 21st at 2:00 p.m. CST for the last International Cooking Show of the spring semester! For this installment, Raissa Gonzalez will be making sopa de maní, a Bolivian peanut soup, for us! The recipe (and a recorded version of the show) will be shared after the event so that you can cook along and try the dish out for yourself.

The Charles David Keeling Lecture entitled “Greenhouse Gases Observations 1957-2100” will be presented via Zoom by Dr. Manvendra Dubey, Laboratory Fellow from Los Alamos National Laboratory, on Monday, April 17 at 4:00 p.m.  The Keeling Lecture is hosted by the Department of Atmospheric Sciences and the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment.  

Please join us for Episode 9 of the Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) speaker series sponsored by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation. This week, Linda Lee Drozt of the OVCRI will speak on the topic of conflicts of interest and commitment.

Genome editing is no longer in the distant future. Using CRISPR technology, scientists can activate or inhibit functions of various genes to better understand and cure diseases. Explore the potential benefits, unintended consequences, and moral dilemmas of this revolutionary technology.

Looking for adults aged 40-64 years to participate in a study into sedentary behavior. The study involves 1 call, wearing activity monitors, and 1 visit to Freer Hall. Measures include cognitive tests, electroencephalography, a body scan, and sub-maximal exercise test. Compensation up to $60. If interest click here!

Recruiting care partners for a paid online study about a new medication management app designed for older adults. Participants must be 21 years or older, fluent in English, have experience helping a family member with memory issues who takes medication(s) for hypertension or high cholesterol, and use a smartphone. For details email medmanage@illinois.edu. 

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 interested in a study involving research that will lead to advances in screening,treatment, & care of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) & Anxiety Disorder (AD)? We seek participants who currently have MDD or AD & participants who do not have either of these conditions. Participating in the study will involve completing surveys about physical and mental health & participating in an interview.

This study involves adults ages 45-75 years consuming two different supplements daily for two separate four-week periods. Participation involves collection of stool samples and diet records. Participants will complete surveys and computer tasks (over 6 visits of 1.5 to 2.5 hours each) to assess thinking ability. The study will take ~13 weeks total. Compensation of $350 provided upon completion. 

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.

We are recruiting adults to participate in an online study to understand how people make plans to maintain or improve one's health through online search. The study will be done through a Zoom meeting for about 105 minutes to 2 hours. No in-person contact will be involved. You will be compensated with Amazon e-Gift Card with the amount of $18.25 to $21.5 for your participation. 

Recruiting healthy adult males ages 18-30 who have no ear/hearing disorder, no speech/language disorder, no neurologic disorder, are right-handed, speak English as their first language, and are non-smokers. We study how activity of the eardrum and inner ear relates to hearing in noise. Study involves a lab visit (2.5 hours maximum, $15 per hour). E-mail hearingresearch@illinois.edu.

Support research in fall prevention programs. The AdaptLab is seeking older adult men 65+ who are not afraid of falling to participate in a virtual focus group. The study lasts about one hour and takes place fully online. Participants will receive a $20 gift card for their time. For more information, email fiw2@illinois.edu

Researchers are seeking lactating mothers of 3–4-month-old infants to provide one fresh milk sample (2-4 ounces) for a study of milk composition. Participants will receive a gift certificate upon sample pick up. For more information, contact Dr. Marcia Siegel at monaco@illinois.edu or 217-244-2873.