Illinois will host a free exhibition of the murals of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in the Illini Union Gallery in September. The show opens on Sept.7 at 10:30 a.m. with a symposium in the Pine Lounge. Prof. Gisela Sin will lead a conversation with muralism expert Prof. Sandra Zetina and photographer Ricardo Alvarado. A reception will be in the gallery from 4-5 p.m.

Heat index values of up to 100 degrees Fahrenheit are forecasted through Wednesday. During this period of higher-than-typical temperatures, all academic and administrative units are asked to curtail energy usage within facilities as much as practical. Every individual or departmental action can make a difference to support overall campus efforts and Electrical Grid Response Strategies.

211 is a free and confidential non-emergency service for Illinois residents. Specialists connect people to resources to address needs related to food, utilities, housing, and substance use, to name a few. 211 is  accessible 24/7/365 and is available in more than 180 languages. Call 211 for immediate assistance, text TXT211, or visit https://go.illinois.edu/211URL for more information.

In this session, we partner with the Writers Workshop to cover the writing process of a literature review. This session is open to all doctoral students. Please complete the form to register for the workshop. It will be conducted through Zoom. We look forward to working with you!  

The Educational Policy Committee will hold a public hearing to discuss renaming the Department of Atmospheric Sciences to the "Department of Climate, Meteorology, and Atmospheric Sciences," and eliminating the Institute for Competitive Manufacturing in Mechanical & Industrial Engineering. Interested parties should notify Barb Lehman via email (bjlehman@illinois.edu) if they plan on attending. 

In this session, students will learn about general and subject-specific indexing and abstracting resources, search techniques, and interacting with sources and collections held at the University of Illinois and beyond. This session is open to all doctoral students. Please complete the form to register for the workshop. We are looking forward to seeing you. 

The Speaking Center is reopening for individual consultations beginning September 5th! The Center's individual consultations are designed to provide personalized presentation and public speaking support, including with brainstorming, constructing your argument, organizing your presentation, building a visual aid, and more. Learn more and book an appointment by visiting our website.

Openings for low-cost therapy for kids struggling with feelings of sadness, withdrawal from activities, anxiety, post-traumatic symptoms, social fears, and other concerns. Treatment may be provided in person or via video conferencing. More info/free screening appointment, call 217-333-0041. Psychological Services Center, 505 E. Green St. Champaign.

CARD (Collaborations in the Advancement of Research on Disability) is a new disability research theme. Affiliated with the Center for Health, Aging, & Disability, CARD aims to provide leadership in interdisciplinary disability research, outreach, and engagement to support optimal living with disabilities and encourage faculty collaborations. Want to learn more? Email us at card-AHS@illinois.edu  

The Waste Transfer Station is the center of campus waste management. Students, faculty, staff, classes, and community members are encouraged to request tours of the station. Learn how your recyclables are sorted and how you can help support the university in achieving our zero waste goals.

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) introduces a revamped Proposal Development Office (PDO) that offers expanded support to NCSA-affiliated researchers and faculty affiliates across campus. To connect with the PDO for help in planning for future proposals or developing and submitting a current one, visit the new website for additional details or email the team.

Please tell your students! URAP offers undergraduate students with little or no research experience the opportunity to assist grad students & post-docs with their research projects. Please encourage your students to apply now for the opportunity to join our Spring 2024 cohort (deadline: Oct 6). For more information and to apply, please visit: https://go.illinois.edu/URAP

Apply by Sept. 30 to be considered as an instructor for the Winter session of The Farms: An Allerton Folk School. This is open to community members who can guide students in learning a new skill or craft. Previous teaching or facilitating experience is preferred but not required. Classes can be in art, outdoor education, storytelling, science, wellness and more. Applications are available here.

Are you using or considering using REDCap for your research? A variety of free REDCap workshops are being offered this fall to help both novice and more advanced users understand Illinois REDCap’s capabilities. You may also schedule 15-30 min remote meetings with IHSI REDCap Applications Manager Michelle Lore during office hours on Thursdays from 2-3 pm. Register now! 

Are you looking to increase your seasonal produce intake? Then Get Fresh! is the program for you! It is a six-week program at the Instructional Kitchen in collaboration with the Student Sustainable Farm that allows you to try fresh, seasonal produce each week! For $60, you will receive a sample of fresh produce once a week, recipe handouts, and a reuseable tote bag. Register by 9/8/2023. 

The Writers Workshop satellite locations open Tuesday, 9/5! You can find us at the Main Library, Grainger Library, and the MCB Learning Center in Burrill Hall. We also offer live online consultations and asynchronous Written Feedback Appointments. Learn more about our consultation types and meet our staff. We are here to support you with all types of writing, at any stage of the process!

Are you an instructor teaching a service learning course? We CU Community Engaged Scholars offers in-class trainings to prepare students for community engagement. We CU trainings teach students how to collaborate with community partners, communicate effectively, and reflect on their personal and professional growth. If you would like to learn more or request a training, email We-CU@illinois.edu.

The Program Leader Safety and Best Practices Workshop guides program leaders in preparing for the safest possible experience abroad. Those who lead, or assist, short-term education abroad or other University-related travel abroad for students must attend at least one workshop a year. Please visit safetyabroad.illinois.edu for more information and to register.

Interested in community service and volunteerism? Come to the Community Change Maker Expo on September 6th from 10am-2pm on the Quad. Visit with a network of diverse CU community organizations to learn about their services, internships and volunteer opportunities.  

ParaView is an open source scientific visualization framework. As an open source tool, nothing has more impact on ParaView than its community. This talk will first focus on defining who comprises this community and its segments. We'll discuss  how changes to the code are driven by its community so that ParaView remains relevant in a mutating scientific landscape.

Ride your bike to campus on Thursday, Sept. 14, and get a free t-shirt! Welcome stations will be set up across the area from 7 – 10 a.m., including eight U of I locations. Celebrate Champaign County Bike to Work Day with others by stopping in for refreshments and snacks. You must bring your bicycle and pre-register at https://go.fs.illinois.edu/BiketoWorkDay to get the shirt!

Are you interested in incorporating Digital Humanities methods into your teaching or research, planning DH forums, or gaining editorial experience working for a peer-reviewed journal? Then SourceLab might just be the DH collective for you! Join us at our informational session on Sept. 8 in Gregory Hall 327 from 4:00 to 5:30. There will be pizza, a digital scavenger hunt, and lively conversation!

Join us Wednesday September 6th at 5:30PM for the first Chambana Science Café of the Semester.  Dr. Udit Halder will to talk about his work in a talk titled "What octopus intelligence can teach us about robots".  Join us at Cafeteria and Company in downtown Urbana (208 W Main St, Urbana).  We hope to see you there!

Learn how to make common word processing documents accessible for screen readers, and how to make presentations accessible for a wide range of users. We will cover MS Word, MS PowerPoint and Google Docs, as well as general best practices for accessibility that you can incorporate across formats. 

New to the university? Need a refresher on using the library? This hands-on workshop will introduce you to library resources and services. After this workshop, you’ll be able to navigate the library website with confidence to access print and electronic materials. Come with questions if you have them!

This workshop will help you explore digital approaches to cultural heritage materials. We’ll identify families of digital modes of analysis, including text mining, mapping, and network analysis, and play with beginner-friendly DH tools. You'll understand of how technology can enhance the study of literature, history, art, and other disciplines, opening doors to new lines of scholarly inquiry.

A citation manager can help you store your files, create citations, and insert formatted citations into papers. This hands-on workshop will introduce you to three popular citation managers: Mendeley, Zotero, and Endnote. We will go over the strengths and limitations of each one and give you a preview of how they work to help you choose the best fit for your citation needs.

This Illinois REDCap workshop will focus on advanced ways Illinois REDCap can be used to collect research data, including how to build or edit projects with a Data Dictionary, collecting data with repeatable instruments, and collecting longitudinal data with defined events. Information about accessing Illinois REDCap is available here: https://healthinstitute.illinois.edu/redcap. 

The Sky Happiness Retreat is an internationally acclaimed life-skills program that helps participants develop relaxed, stress-free mind and healthy body through evidence-based meditation, yoga, breathwork, socio-emotional development in a fun and experiential format. The retreat is for all UIUC staff, faculty, and fully funded for all UIUC students. Sign up link: https://tinyurl.com/uiucseptember

Join UIUC Physics for this fall's Saturday Physics for Everyone on Saturday the 9th. This in-person series kicks off this fall with Professor Lucas Wagner's "Physics Using Computation and Computation Using Physics". Doors open at 9:30AM for snacks and SPS demos. The lecture begins at 10:15AM. This event is free and open to all: friends, family, kids and grandparents. We hope to see you there!

The Illinois Neurodiversity Initiative (INI) is kicking off Social Group for the Fall Semester. Social Group brings together neurodiverse students who want to connect with students like them, experience campus activities, and make new friends. Social Group will begin on September 6th at 6pm. Please email iniprogram@illinois.edu to RSVP.

The European Union Center is holding its welcome-back fall reception this Thursday from 4:30pm to 6:00pm at 210 Levis Faculty Center. We look forward to seeing familiar and new faces, introducing you to our students and FLAS fellowship recipients, and sharing with you some Center news. We especially encourage faculty who are new to campus to stop by and get to know our Center!

Japan House is proud to be a participating garden in the North American Japanese Garden Association's Gardens for Peace (G4P) project. Japan House is offering outside garden tours to learn about the unique pattern for peace raked in the dry rock garden. Garden tours will occur rain or shine - please prepare accordingly. Inside, Japan House will have a tea ceremony for peace at 12pm.

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. 

Join Tom Van Dam, of Wiss, Janey, Elstner Associates, as he presents in person at the Fall 2023 Kent Seminar Series Thursday, September 7, from 2-3 p.m. (CT). Pizza and soft drinks will be provided beginning at 1:30 p.m. in the ICT Classroom. 

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 "Molecular Underpinnings of Heterogeneity in Obesity"  

Unexpected changes happen a lot in our lives. Join us to explore strategies helping us to ground and re-oriented when unexpected changes happen. This workshop is facilitated by the Counseling Center. Please register for the zoom link (sent the morning of the workshop). To attend in person, join us in the Main Library, room 106.

The biennial 2-day festival features performances by some of the world's greatest guitarists, including Ani DiFranco, Andy Summers, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Malina Moye, Yasmin Williams, William Tyler, Roosevelt Collier, Ron Carter Golden Striker Trio, The Surfrajettes, Sharon Isbin & Pacifica Quartet, and more! Many events are free and family-friendly. Visit krannertcenter.com/ellnora to learn more.

The Illini Union Rec Room offers a Classic Bowling League and Pool School. Bowling will be played on Sunday nights. Register full or partial teams, or sign up individually and be placed on a team. Pool School is a great class for beginners, or anyone who just wants to improve their skills! It meets on Monday nights; Pool School Plus (intermediate/advance) meets Monday/Wednesday nights.

There is still time to register for fall courses at The Farms: An Allerton Folk School. September courses/events include Holistic End of Life Planning and Caregiving, Saturday Stargazing, Stretch 'n Sip Yoga, Camping With Your Kids, Improve Your Improv, History Happy Hour, Guitar and/or Dulcimer lessons, Fireside Fridays and more! Click on the links for info and to register.

Irish Fest is next up for the Allerton Park Concert Series presented by the Ayers Family from 6-9 p.m. Sept. 8. Enjoy the music of Celtic Whistle and The Gothard Sisters on the Gatehouse Lawn. $5/person or $10/family suggested donation. Stay overnight as part of the Weekend Wind Down. The Summer's End Concert on Sept. 29 is a $30/carload ticketed event and ends the concert season. 

Join a dynamic workshop series designed for all faculty! The theme is “What the Best College Teachers Know about Their Students’ Learning." Some new and returning topics are Creating a Student-Centered Syllabi, Moving from "Traditional" to “Enhanced” Lectures, and more. This five-part weekly series begins Wed, Sept. 13th. Register at https://go.citl.illinois.edu/Calendar.

Cathy Murphy, the Larry R. Faulkner Endowed Chair in Chemistry and the interim director of the Beckman Institute, will present "A golden time for nanotechnology" at the Beckman Institute Director's Seminar at noon on Thursday, Sept. 7 in 1005 Beckman. Lunch will be provided for attendees who register. 

Take a break and visit Japan House for a traditional Japanese tea ceremony! Space is limited to 18 guests. Reservations are required, no walk-ins will be permitted. Enjoy a bowl of matcha and seasonal wagashi (traditional Japanese sweet) while learning about Chado, the Way of Tea.

The 55th Annual IVLA conference will be held October 5-7. Day passes are available to non-presenters to make this event more accessible to anyone interested in visual literacy. Attendees are a multidisciplinary mix of artists, designers, librarians, and educators. Find our schedule at SCHED, register at Eventbrite, and learn more on our website. 

Dr. Yuridia Ramírez is an historian of the modern United States with specialties in migration, Latinxs, labor, and Indigeneity. In her talk, Dr. Ramírez examines Indigeneity in Mexico and traces the migration of P’urhépechas from Cherán, Michoacán, to North Carolina since the 1980s.

The University of Illinois System and National Taiwan University have launched two programs intended to spur collaboration between researchers from the two universities: a joint innovation and research seed grants program, and a travel grants program. Both programs have an information and partnering webinar on Sept. 14.

Fresh Press is offering four fun campus & community hand-papermaking workshops this Autumn 2023! They are Welcome to Papermaking, Pulp Painting and Stencils, Harvest Moon, and Pride Paper! You can learn more about the activities involved and costs at our Workshop page! 

Student parents are an integral part of the Illinois family, and we want to connect with you! Join us on Saturday, September 9 at the Orchard Downs Community Center at 2 p.m. for a panel discussion from current parents who are students at the university. Community and campus resources will be available after the discussion. Childcare and snacks will be provided during the event.

Calling all hockey players! The Ice Arena is pleased to offer a Senior Rec Hockey League for select members of the campus community and the public. Players must be 21 years or older to participate in this non-check, recreational hockey league. All games will be played on Sunday evenings - times subject to change. Register through Campus Recreation's web portal, Active Illini.

Join the Interseminars Initiative’s first cohort for a symposium brimming with scholarly panels, installations, exhibitions, and performances, concluding with a reception and book release celebration. Nine graduate student fellows will be showcasing 18 months’ worth of interdisciplinary experiments. This event also features keynote speakers and a guest performer. View symposium schedule.

Professors Ryan Shosted (Linguistics) and Neal Davis (Computer Science) will present their research on the Deseret Alphabet, a 19th-century writing system created by leaders of the Mormon Church. This phonetic alphabet may encapsulate pronunciations of English dialect that have otherwise disappeared over time. Join us for a discussion of these texts and view some rare examples of Deseret imprints!

Join us for this month's Art of Teaching Lunchtime Seminar on Sept. 7th on Zoom. Andrea Faber Taylor (Crop Sciences, College of ACES) will share her perspectives on teaching in an evolving reality for you and your students. Topics include engagement adaptation in varied situations, restorative activities for students, and self-care habit maintenance. Click here to register.

Jian Tang, an associate professor at Mila-Quebec AI Institute, will present "Generative Biology: Towards Building the 'ChatGPT' in Biology." We continue the CIRSS speaker series in Fall 2023 with a focus on "Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Computing". 

This workshop will give you hands-on experience accelerating Python codes with NVIDIA GPUs. We will explore drop-in replacements for SciPy and NumPy code through the CuPy library and cover NVIDIA RAPIDS, which provides GPU acceleration for end-to-end data science workloads. You'll then have the skills to start accelerating your own Python codes! To register by Sept 5, use this registration form.

NCSA and Research IT will offer the Illinois Campus Cluster: Basics of Access and Usage workshop next Sept 8 at 10 AM CT. The content is suitable for researchers wanting to know more about ICCP and those with little experience working with clusters. Register by September 5 and find more information with this link: https://go.ncsa.illinois.edu/ICCPBasicsRegistration.

We are looking for kids age 6-11 years for a study of how diet and air pollution result in inflammation. During two week-long visits, we will collect indoor air samples. Participants will provide urine and saliva samples, complete questionnaires, and have body measurements taken. You will receive up to $100 in Amazon e-codes for their participation. Interested? Complete our interest form.

Looking for adults aged 40-64 years to participate in a study into sedentary behavior. The study involves 1 screening 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 $50. Click here if interested!

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 $350Click here if interested!

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) 300-544 

We are exploring challenges encountered in daily activities by adults aged 60+. If you or someone you know is experiencing difficulty with thinking, memory, or concentration or has mild cognitive impairment, we would like to learn from your experiences to develop solutions. The study will be conducted using video chat. Participants will be paid. Contact KCH-HFA-ENACT@illinois.edu or 217-265-0885.

Help make the Next Alcohol Fitbit! 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, wearing a transdermal bracelet, and filling out surveys for two weeks. Up to $300 in compensation for participation.

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 & mental health & participating in an interview.

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

Are you experiencing flu, cold, or COVID-19-like symptoms? Participate in a research study at McKinley Health Center – Lower Level, Room 007 in Urbana, IL, and receive a $40 gift card. Visit Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Your participation can contribute to medical knowledge and help combat these illnesses.

We are conducting a paid study to understand your concerns about managing your health. For example, whether to get any vaccines (e.g., COVID-19), take screening, start exercise, adopt certain treatments, etc. Participants will receive $25 for study participation. If you are interested in the study, please fill out the Screening Form. Researchers will contact you to schedule Zoom meetings.