Fall openings for low-cost treatment for adults suffering from chronic anxiety or worry, social anxiety, fear, depressed mood, or posttraumatic stress. For more information or a free screening appointment, call 217-333-0041. Psychological Services Center, 505 E Green St. Champaign.

The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program 2024-25 competition is open! To learn more, visit https://international.illinois.edu/services-units/global-relations/fulbright.html To join the upcoming virtual information session on August 23rd, register here.

The Campus Homepage Content policy (APR-04) https://cam.illinois.edu/policies/apr-04/ has been reviewed by the policy owner and the CAM committee, and the policy will be removed from the CAM. We conduct administrative reviews of CAM policies on a regular basis to ensure they remain accurate and applicable.

OLLI's Fall semester begins Sept. 5th! Choose from 30 courses in history, literature, science, film, current affairs, and wellness. Full-year and Fall memberships available. OLLI welcomes all community members 50 or older. Membership also includes study groups, interest groups, lectures, and social events. For more information about OLLI at Illinois, call 217-244-9141 or visit olli.illinois.edu.

Beginning September 5, 2023, Grainger Engineering Library Information Center (GELIC) will extend its closing time from 10pm to 2am. GELIC will move to a 24/5 open schedule as soon as possible after that date pending the resolution of a staffing shortage. Please watch Eweek, the GELIC website, or follow the University Library social media accounts for announcements regarding the hours of GELIC.

The IT Professionals Forum is a conference that brings IT pros together for workshops, posters, and keynote presentations on best practices and lessons learned. Tuesday, October 31 will be hybrid (iHotel and Zoom). Wednesday, November 1 will be online. Proposals must be completed and submitted through the online form by 5pm on Friday, August 25, 2023. We'd love to hear what you have to share!

Interested in exploring the potential commercial application of your research? Apply to the Lean Launchpad Short Course that provides a set of skills and entrepreneurial knowledge that can be applied to any career path. Explore your innovation from a business and customer perspective, and prepare to apply for federal grants. Fall session application is due Aug. 25.

Beginning Aug. 23, students can schedule in-person, online, or written feedback appointments at the Writers Workshop to receive feedback on their writing. The Workshop provides tailored presentations for courses and student organizations by request, and we host presentations throughout the semester about common academic writing concerns. View our calendar for upcoming workshops and events!

If you have a student facing basic needs concerns, such as housing insecurity, food insecurity, or needing financial assistance, please refer the student to the Student Assistance Center at Refer a Student » Community of Care » Illinois. To consult about a student, please contact Abisola Smith, Assistant Director of Basic Needs Coordination at 217-333-0050 or email basicneeds@illinois.edu.

The ESL Program offers advanced 8-week courses for international graduate students, faculty, staff and visiting scholars for individualized support in publishing an article, writing a dissertation or presenting at a conference. ESL 592 teaches students the academic writing conventions of their own discipline; ESL 593 improves skills in speaking and presenting research in academic settings.

The Illinois Leadership® Center offers a variety of free, highly experiential leadership development workshops that are available to academic classes and other student groups upon request. These workshops address a variety of topics, such as self-discovery, addressing conflict, empathy, and sustainability. 

Learn more and request a workshop at http://www.leadership.illinois.edu/workshops.

No need to spend your time and money on design and accessibility. Use the simplest website creator on campus with WordPress at publish.illinois.edu (PIE). This hosting solution provided by Technology Services helps you build a fully managed site with an Illinois URL and an appropriately branded design out of the box. Try it now at publish.illinois.edu.

Students can benefit from using UIUC AnyWare a free service providing optimized virtual access to over 100 software applications for students on campus, remote, or in class. It offers a remote desktop environment where users may access software securely and save files to and from their own device (Windows, MacOS, Linux).  

Keynote speaker:   Penny Gordon Larsen, PhD, Carla Smith Chamblee Distinguished Professor of Global Nutrition and Vice Chancellor for Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will present "Regulation of liver energy balance by nutrient sensing nuclear receptors". Join by livestream.

Are you on a personal diversity journey, but worry you may say the wrong thing? The Cancer Center at Illinois and Beckman Institute are partnering for a lunch and learn event to discuss Verna Myers' book, “What if I Say the Wrong Thing?: 25 Habits for Culturally Effective People." Registrants will receive a complimentary copy of the book and free lunch. Register to attend by Wednesday, Sept. 13.

HPCBio, with the support of the OVCR, is pleased to announce the offering of a 10X Single Cell RNA-Seq Analysis workshop. Content will include an intro to 10X Genomics, and steps to analyze Single Cell and Visium Spatial gene expression data.  There will be a main workshop offered remotely, as well as optional advanced sessions (held in-person) to apply what you’ve learned to your own 10X dataset.

On Wednesday, August 23rd from 12 to 2 pm, come out and meet some of our squad, the UofI Police Officers out on the Illini Union Quad. Ask questions, chat with officers, and discover who we are! No Agenda, Just Conversation! Did we mention that there will be FREE Dilly Bars from Dairy Queen! 

This exciting summit will bring together scholars, students, observers, and participants in American government to discuss the state of democracy in present-day United States. The event will be held at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum & President Abraham Lincoln Hotel in Springfield, Illinois. Registration will be opening in a couple of weeks!

Join Jeffery Roesler of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as he presents in person at the Fall 2023 Kent Seminar Series Thursday, August 24, from 2-3 p.m. (CT). Pizza and soft drinks will be provided beginning at 1:30 p.m. in the ICT Classroom. 

George A Miller Visiting Artist and former Martha Graham dancer, Miki Orihara, will discuss her new solo concert series that includes her own choreography, with the aim of defining who she is now, how she got to be this artist, and honoring her mentors and teachers.

One more week to donate to ECL@Illinois's diaper drive for the Bottom Line Diaper Bank, which distributes 10,000+ diapers/month to Champaign County families. We aim to collect a month’s worth of diapers (or more!) during August because no family should start the school year worrying about diapers. Collection boxes are at the ARC and the Union, or you can purchase diapers from Amazon. Thank you!

ILC Leadership Book Club registration is now open. This Fall, the ILC Book Club is reading about compassion and care. Participants can read either Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey or Compassionate Leadership by Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter. The ILC Book Club will meet October 24th and is open to all students, faculty, and staff. Register at https://forms.illinois.edu/sec/108127815.  

We will discuss how immigrant-related stressors impact the mental health and well-being of Latino/a/e immigrant communities. Learn about efforts in the U.S. and Mexico to create community-based and culturally-informed interventions to address mental health disparities among the Latino/a/e immigrant community. Explore how to leverage community stakeholders to empower and strengthen communities.

The Career Center is teaming up with JCPenney to provide students with a special in-store shopping event. Students can shop for quality professional career wear at special discounts (up to 50% off). Round-trip transportation will be provided for students. Bring University ID. To learn more and to sign-up visit Handshake. (*Discount also available to University faculty and staff).

The Illinois Part-Time Job Fair is open to all Illinois students seeking opportunities to earn money and build their career competencies while going to school. Opportunities are part-time, non-technical positions on campus or in the Champaign-Urbana area. It is an informal fair. Casual attire is acceptable. Registration is not required but encouraged. To learn more or to register visit Handshake.

Tech Points gathers the university IT community in three locations across campus to run pop-up help desks for anybody needing any technology or software assistance. Tech Points will be held August 21-23 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM at the Main Library, Illini Union, and CIF. You can read more at Technology Services Tech Points.

The 10th Annual Flatlands Film Festival is on Saturday, September 9, 2023. The event opens with Broken Memory, a short dance film performed and choreographed by Miki Orihara, who is a George A. Miller Visiting Artist in the Department of Dance and former Martha Graham principal dancer. Moving Together by Maggie M. Bailey, is this year's feature-length film. 

Our kickoff event will feature 10 short talks by researchers from different units, and from across the University. It will be an opportunity to sample the different ways U of I researchers approach the issue of climate change.

Join us for an incredible evening with Nick Offerman! Ticket proceeds support Japan House. If you like deliberative talking, mirth, and music, then this is the evening for you. Topics will include, but not be limited to: beef, comportment, eggs, bacon, pork, breakfast, barbecue, steak, meat, and Illinois Kabuki Theatre. If the evening is light on dance, the audience has only themselves to blame.

Please join us at our welcome back event and Asian American Cultural Center / International Education Open House. Come by the Asian American Cultural Center to tour the building, see performances, play games, meet student organizations and campus resources, eat Asian snacks, and more! 

Join the Champaign-Urbana Astronomical Society for Saturday Stargazing Saturday, Sept. 9 at the Sun Singer. Participants are welcome to arrive any time between 7:30 and 8:30 p.m., bring a picnic and play lawn games as the sun sets. The best views start at 8:45 p.m., with the event wrapping up by 10:30 p.m. You may bring a telescope, but it is not required in order to participate.

When you think of wellness, do your finances come to mind? If not, perhaps you should consider how finances impact other areas of your life. Well-being Services offers a free three-week financial wellness education course. 

Prudential Pathways will be offered 5:30 pm, on Tuesdays, starting on September 19. The program is open to employees and their significant others. To register, visit this link.

Juan Sequeda, a Principal Scientist and Head of the AI Lab at data.world will present “A Knowledge First World: a knowledge revolution is coming (...or at least there should be one!).” We continue the CIRSS speaker series in Fall 2023 with a focus on “Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Computing”. 

Did you know the University of Illinois is home to the second-oldest agricultural experiment in the world? Take a trip back through university history through the lens of the plots with the team behind the recent publication of more than 100 years of Morrow Plots data. 

Join us for a webinar for the Center for Advanced Semiconductor Chips with Accelerated Performance (ASAP) to learn more about the center's current status, welcome our PIs and industry members, and to kick off the start of research for the newly funded projects. This is open to both prospective members and current members. Please register here: https://go.mntl.illinois.edu/ASAP-August2023Webinar

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!

Seeking women who have NOT undergone bariatric surgery OR who have undergone bariatric surgery 2-6 years ago. Subjects will have 2 visits at which they will be evaluated on their taste preferences and perception. Each visit will be compensated with $50. Please contact jgn3@illinois.edu if interested.

We are looking for adults 30-60 years old with a BMI between 25 - 35 who are free of metabolic and GI disorders to participate. You will be asked to consume a pre-prepared snack twice daily for 12 weeks. You will also be asked to visit the laboratory three times for blood draws and questionnaires, as well as provide six stool samples. You will receive up to $500 for participating.

The Alcohol Research Lab is looking for frequent drinkers to participate in a validation study of transdermal biosensing bracelets. Participation involves attending three laboratory sessions over the course of two weeks. *This study seeks to study drinking, not promote drinking.* Up to $300 in compensation for participation

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

Individuals aged 60 years and older who care for a relative with dementia are needed for a research study. Participants will engage in fun, social events with other people through a video chat platform called OneClick. Participants are compensated for participation. For more information, contact us at shs-caregiver-engage@illinois.edu or 217-333-5262. 

Participants needed for a study on health technology that supports BP medication adherence. Participants must be 65 years of age or older, take at least 1 medication for high BP, and use an iPhone. Participants will receive compensation. Please spread the word to family and friends. (Study in partnership with the University of Arizona). Email bp-system@pharmacy.arizona.edu or call (217) 300-5445.