The Senate Committee on Honorary Degrees invites nominations for honorary degree awards. You are urged to nominate, through your unit, outstanding candidates. The nominee should have made distinguished contributions in a relevant field or have shown sustained activity of uncommon merit. Nomination procedures are detailed at: https://www.senate.illinois.edu/hd_criteria.asp

The final version of the Summer 2023 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students is now available at go.illinois.edu/lotrae.

The Illinois Supervisory Skills Program is an opportunity to develop self-awareness of management styles and personal biases, to practice strategies for resolving conflict and to build confidence in leading others through performance feedback and coaching techniques. Open to current academic or civil service employees with at least a 75%-time appointment. 

Liberal Arts & Sciences (LAS) Illinois Academic Leadership and Management Institute(ALMI) is providing robust & purposeful leadership support for junior faculty during their initial years at Illinois. In collaboration with Grainger & the NCPRE, ALMI is specifically designed for Assistant & Associate Professors engaged in group-based research in LAS or Grainger. ALMI Spring 2024 cohort apply here.

In honor of Graduate Student Appreciation Week, the Professional Portrait Lab will offer extended hours during the week of October 9th. The hours of operation are Mon., October 9, 3:30 – 5pm, Wed., October 11, 11:15 am – 1 pm., and Thurs., October 12, 9-10:30 am. Headshots will be delivered via a private secured email in 3 business days (during peak times delivery may take longer.)

Elevator pitches are a dime a dozen. Strong elevator pitches are not. Whether it’s for an internship, job interview, or conference, having a good elevator pitch can help you connect with others and get your foot in the door. Join the Speaking Center for this workshop to learn strategies for creating a compelling case for you in this workshop. Please register ahead of time using the link above.

The PSLA is a system-wide leadership program meant to foster and sustain a culture of exceptional, dynamic, and transformational leadership at all levels throughout the U of I System. Candidates must meet eligibility requirements and be able to attend all four conference dates. Applications will be accepted starting October 2nd on the PSLA webpage.

Illinois 4-H members join six million youth across the country in celebrating National 4-H Week Oct. 1-7. Clubs celebrate by highlighting remarkable 4‑H youth in their communities and showcasing experiences that 4‑H offers young people. “Our goal is whatever your interests or talents, 4-H is where you feel welcome and have a sense of belonging,” says Lisa Diaz, assistant dean and 4-H director.

The STC for Quantitative Cell Biology and IDEA Lab are seeking student volunteers to help serve as facilitators for Girls Who Code clubs at the International Prep Academy in Champaign and the Urbana Middle School to provide coding activities and role models to 6-8th graders in the Spanish/English dual language programs for 1-2 hours every other week. Interested? Email cabada@illinois.edu.

Would you like to have undergrads participate in your summer research project? The ISGC UROP program allows students to work in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) research positions that will complement their studies. ISGC will provide a $3000 (43%) stipend for students. Please see the website for complete details. UROP Summer 2024

Illinois 4-H is calling all 4-H alumni to raise their hands if they are “4-H Grown”! During National 4-H Week, we seek to identify 4-H alumni who grew up in the Illinois 4-H program. If you were a member of the Illinois 4-H program, you are one of 25 million Americans who share a unique bond. We hope you will reconnect with Illinois 4-H and register as 4-H alumni at the link above.

UIUC has submitted our Bicycle Friendly University renewal application. As part of the review process, League of American Bicyclists created this survey to get responses from the campus and community members who are familiar with the bike infrastructure on-campus and like to bike (regularly or occasionally). Please fill out this survey by 10/10/2023. Your feedback is invaluable! Time: ~5 minutes

The ESL Program offers ESL 593 Academic Presentations Skills for international graduate students, faculty, staff and visiting scholars. This is a 7-week course that begins on October 17, designed to offer authentic opportunities to practice with individualized feedback. Students practice explaining their research, adapting to different audiences and writing conference proposals.

Campus Rec is excited to run our Student Wellness Coaching program, a powerful resource to enhance student well-being! Our peer wellness coaches work with undergrad students in areas of their physical activity habits, sleep hygiene, water intake, dietary pattern habits, organizational skills, and stress response strategies.

Need 3D Printing services for your course, research group, or for a personal project? Submit your next 3D print job to the IDEA Lab. You design it, submit it, and we 3D Print it for you. We also offer design consultations. The IDEA Lab is equipped with state-of-the-art FDM and SLA printers. Our lab services are available to all students, faculty, and staff at Illinois.

Join the CGS team in welcoming Dr. Adil Najam on Monday October 2nd at 12PM for their presentation, "The Age Adaptation". Dr. Najam will examine climate change impacts, particularly on developing countries of the Global South who have had the least to do with causing the climate crisis but now find themselves at the forefront of its impacts.

Personal knowledge management (PKM) software programs are tools that you can use for organizing and understanding information through tools like linking, tagging, and network graphs. In this new workshop, we’ll explore the use of a free PKM software (Logseq) that you can use to organize, structure, and link text data for qualitative data analysis. Attend via Zoom or in-person in Main Library 314. 

Join us for a workshop led by Lovern J. Gordon, the author of "The Legacy He Left Me." This interactive workshop discusses how easy it can be to fall into an abusive relationship, what are the effects of being a child witness, what constitutes a healthy relationship vs. an abusive one, how to safely end an unhealthy relationship, and how to help someone in need. Please register here.

Elizabeth Maconchy's hauntingly beautiful third quartet emerged out of the shadows of 1930s Europe. Carlos Simon’s heartbreaking Elegy memorializes the Black American victims of police violence, while Nathan Shield’s new quartet, Medusa, composed for the Jupiter Quartet for Shields’ Guggenheim Fellowship, explores the effects of various types of political and social violence.

Ryan Byfield is a Caribbean artist from the island of Jamaica. He and his band Nuclei performs original as well as cover materials. Byfield recently released his first album, Roots for the Culture, and is now working on a second project called "Renovation."

Mark Cooley, Dwayne Tomah & Maulian Dana "Fighting Indians" Screening & Discussion 

Veteran students come to college with unique backgrounds and experiences. Being well-educated about these individuals would create a smoother transition into the learning environment of higher education. The workshop will be held on Nov, 17th from 11 am to 12 pm. Please RSVP     https://forms.illinois.edu/sec/100558382

Students of all majors and class levels are invited to the Illinois Graduate and Professional School Fair to explore the possibilities of pursuing a Master's, Ph.D., or professional degree. Meet with admission reps from 130+ schools/programs to learn about advanced degrees in health, business, communications, education, STEM, and more. Visit our website to see a list of participating schools.

Indigenous Peoples' Day is a campus-wide celebration that begins on Sunday, October 8th through Monday, October 9th. Many units at our institution have collaborated this year, events will be spread out across campus. Visit this link for the full schedule of events, we look forward to seeing you participate!

Join us for a book club and conversation with the author! The WRC will be featuring Period: The Real Story of Menstruation by Kate Clancy. Explore issues  from bodily autonomy, menstrual hygiene, and the COVID-19 vaccine to the ways racism, sexism, and medical betrayal warp public perceptions of menstruation and erase it from public life. Limited copies are available for book club participants.

This workshop discusses some of the issues in the faculty job search facing those in long-term relationships, and outlines key steps you can take to clarify your needs and understand your options. It covers the partner hire landscape and how to prepare to navigate it. No registration required and anyone is welcome. Available in-person or on Zoom at https://go.grad.illinois.edu/eventspace

Happening tomorrow! You won't want to miss this great lecture by Professor Naomi Oreskes. 

Devi's second novel Circa was published in 2022. The title of her talk is "Telling it slant using second person and poetry techniques to tell a story that grapples with patriarchy, and old-world customs and traditions" .                                                         

The Madan Sara documentary tells the stories of the indefatigable women who work at the margins to make Haiti’s economy run. Despite facing intense hardship & social stigma, the Madan Sara put their children through school, house their families, and help to ensure a better life for generations to come. Event includes a discussion with Director Etant Dupain. Light refreshments will be served.

The Business Excellence Symposium is about showcasing the great tools, techniques and best practices business professionals are utilizing across campus to enhance their work. During the event, learn ways to improve business processes and efficiencies while networking with peers. 

Faith & Blue is an event designed to bring together community members and law enforcement officers; to celebrate the diversity of faith in our community; and to acknowledge our common goal of keeping each other safe.Everyone is invited, regardless of which faith community you do or do not belong to. We hope to see you there! 

Japan House's annual Fall Open House resumes on Saturday, October 14th featuring UofI alumna Linda Mosley, artist and teacher of ceramics and chado. Traditional Japanese tea ceremonies will be offered at 11am, 12pm, 1pm, and 2pm. At 3pm, Linda Mosley will be giving a free presentation about ceramics in tea ceremony. Garden tours offered at 12pm and 1pm. Registration required for all activities.

Dr. Emery N. Brown will give the lecture, "General Anesthesia, Neuromodulation and Altered States of Arousal," at 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 5, in the Beckman Auditorium. Brown is the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience at MIT; the Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School; and an anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital.

A sneak preview of a new documentary by Ken Burns featuring Professor Rosalyn LaPier, Department of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. A panel with Professor LaPier, Professor Bob Morrissey, and PhD candidate Sam Froiland will follow. Professor Emeritus Frederick Hoxie will moderate.

Dance at Illinois presents October Dance 2023 at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, October 12 to October 14. Prior to the opening night performance on Thursday, October 12, a panel discussion, moderated by Sara Hook, Head of the Department of Dance, with Martha Graham Regisseur, Elizabeth Auclair, and dramaturg, Betsy Brandt will be offered at Spurlock Museum at 6:00 pm. This event is free.

Join Technology Services at the Phish Market for phishing carnival games and prizes. Learn how not to take the bait and stay off the phish hook as part of Cybersecurity Awareness Month—a time to remind you not to fall for phishing.

Join us for an informative Fellowship Information Session on the American Association of University Women's fellowship, led by Dana Johnson, Ph.D., Assistant Director of External Fellowships at the Graduate College. Lunch is provided with registration. Please register at this link.

Join us for a talk by Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan, Nobel Prize laureate and Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK, entitled “My Adventures in the Ribosome.” This talk will cover his efforts to unravel the structure of the ribosome, his own career which involved living on three continents, and switching from his initial training in physics to carrying out research in molecular biology.

What do you need to know about money in college? How do you find helpful resources? Emily Harmon, a Financial Educator for Illinois Extension, will share invaluable resources regarding finances for college students. Top 10 Money Tips for College Students is a talk where you can come learn the answers to the questions and more. 

Join Chait Bhat of the Asphalt Institute as he presents in person at the Fall 2023 Kent Seminar Series Thursday, October 5, from 2-3 p.m. (CT). Pizza and soft drinks will be provided beginning at 1:30 p.m. in the ICT Classroom. 

The IGET community of practice is meeting on Wednesday, October 4th from 1-2pm on Zoom. The topic this month is non-traditional grading: an umbrella term for contract grading, specification grading, ungrading, mastery learning or any alternative approach to assignment or course grading. All are welcome to listen or share how instructors are bringing these techniques and tools into the classroom.

NCSA will offer a training session where participants will work on exercises to parallelize model scientific applications using OpenMP. We will learn concepts such as loop scheduling, data declarations, reduction clauses, and several OpenMP library functions. It will be entirely hands-on, with access to a supercomputing cluster. Register by 10/9 and find more info with the link in the title.

This month's Art of Teaching Lunchtime Seminar “A Small But Meaningful Mindset for Improving Your Teaching” is on (10/05) at 12:00 PM. Amy Lynette Clay (French & Italian, LAS College) balances professional duties while enhancing courses with a small but meaningful approach. Amy will cover reusable rubrics, self-assessment, meaningful feedback, and supplementing, not replacing materials.

Scared of the B word? Creating a budget can feel like you’re constricting your funds in a way where you can’t have fun, however, creating a spending plan will ensure you’re determining where your hard-earned money goes. Learn what drives our spending desires and find tools that work best for you to gain full control over your financial fears. Register here. 

Guillaume Cabanac, a professor of Computer Science at the University of Toulouse, France, will present "Decontamination of the scientific literature with the Problematic Paper Screener: Flagging suspect/erroneous/fraudulent papers to crowdsource post-publication reassessments." We continue the CIRSS speaker series in Fall 2023 with a focus on "Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Computing". 

Register for the Student Loan Updates webinar series to view webinars on different federal student loan topics each month through March 2024. All federal student loan borrowers are welcome. Topics covered so far include (1) FSA Dashboard, (2) Loan Simulator, and (3) Consolidation vs Refinancing. Next webinar is on October 20. Recordings for previous webinars available in registration form.

Chemical engineers, learn how you can develop the skills to advance in your career with the Master of Engineering in Chemical Engineering Leadership at Illinois. Register for one of our upcoming webinars for more information:

• Wednesday, October 4, 8pm
• Thursday, November 30, 8pm

Seeking healthy volunteers (males/females, 21-50yrs) who don't smoke to participate in a taste test to explore individual differences in some flavor-related genes and bitter taste perception. May be invited for up to 6 visits lasting 1-2 hrs each. Participants will receive $20 upon completion of each study visit. Please fill out our Online Screening or contact howbitterisit@gmail.com.

Seeking participants for a study on the effect of sweet taste on blood sugar. Participants aged 21-45, non-smokers, with a BMI of 30 kg/m2 and no diabetes will complete questionnaires, taste testing, body composition scans, and blood draws and receive up to $500 upon completion of 5 visits (between 2 to 6 hours each) and free parking. Please fill out our survey Sweet Taste Study if interested. 

We are recruiting children for a paid research study focused on how to improve children's speech understanding in noisy environments. We’re looking for children who are 8-12 years old and who speak English as their first language. The study lasts approximately 1 hr. Participants are paid $15. Free parking. Daytime, evenings, and weekends are available. Email child-SRL@illinois.edu for more info!

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.

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

We are a team of researchers studying personal views on societal issues! All adults 18 years or older are welcome. Participate in this 30-40 minute computer lab study. Participants are paid $15. Sign up at: https://bit.ly/social-causes-survey