A policy has been posted to the CAM Website: Standards for Printed Stationery Materials. Visit https://cam.illinois.edu/policies/under-review/ to review and provide feedback.

The Campus-Community Compact to Accelerate Social Justice announces the Building Beyond the Barriers Community Grant Opportunity. $10,000-$30,000 grants will be awarded for project implementation to accelerate social justice in Champaign County. Open to teams of community and campus partners. Any faculty or staff member can apply. Visit program website for more information. Deadline: 11/17/23

The UI Archives newsletter, Out of the Vault  includes news about exhibitions, programs, acquisitions, and more. Check out the fall issue featuring:   Nikkeijin Illinois exhibit by Jason Finkelman; John Philip Sousa’s family letters; the Archives’ October exhibit “Where are the Bodies?: Myths, Legends, and Rumors at the UI” and much more!!   Read  Out of the Vault fall issue     Subscribe here 

Tech Services is happy to announce the return of the New Hire IT Orientation program now named Illinois IT JumpStart. This special training bundle will be hosted monthly and covers courses like Outlook, Microsoft Teams, and Cybersecurity. You can pick and choose which session you want to attend, and it’s all free! New and current Illinois employees can register on the Illinois IT JumpStart page.

October Dance 2023 features the historic work, Steps in the Street (from Chronicles) by Modern Dance pioneer Martha Graham. Also on the program, premieres by Dance at Illinois faculty, Cynthia Oliver, Alexandra Barbier, Anna Sapozhnikov and undergraduate BA major, Nawal Assougdam. 

Applications are being taken through Oct. 31 for the spring 2024 session of the Joan and Peter Hood Residence program at Allerton Park. Residencies of two to six weeks will allow uninterrupted time for residents to explore their ideas, immerse themselves in the serene surroundings of the Park and engage with our central Illinois communities. Apply for the Spring Joan and Peter Hood Residency here.

The Illinois preselection period is now open for Mayo Clinic’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), a 10-week program that invites students to work alongside Mayo Clinic researchers on cutting-edge biomedical research. Register for an info session on Oct. 12 at 6PM via Zoom to learn more about this special preselection process, hear more about the SURF experience, and ask questions.  

Save the date for the 2018 CCFD Charity Fair on Wednesday, September 5, 2018 at the iHotel & Conference Center from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. to learn more about participating organizations and enjoy some refreshments. All faculty and staff are welcome. The CCFD is the annual giving campaign at the university that supports various charities. The campaign runs Sept. 17 to Nov 9.

Are you retiring or separating from the university? You may defer a portion of your vacation leave payout to your 403(b) and/or 457 retirement accounts. Deferral forms must be completed 60 days prior to your last day of employment. Contact University Payroll & Benefits to complete the necessary form(s). Create a UPB Service Ticket or call 265-6363 for more information.

The Office of the Provost in partnership with The Office of Public Engagement invites you to nominate outstanding individuals who are making a difference in our community. We recognize and celebrate the contributions of faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community members who actively engage with the public to address pressing societal issues. Nominations are due November 1, 2023. 

Faculty, staff, and grad students: Could your research benefit from an undergraduate mentee? Share your Spring research opportunities, be they paid or for credit (e.g., independent study), in our November Undergraduate Student Newsletter. Reach a diverse student audience and recruit a highly motivated undergraduate student! Please submit your opportunity by October 26.

This fall's spine-tingling IT Pro Forum falls on October 31 (in-person/online) & November 1 (online). The trick is that registration for in-person attendance ends Wednesday, October 11 at 11:59 p.m. CDT. If you can't come in person or don't make the deadline, treat yourself to virtual attendance. Registration for the virtual component ends the week of the event. Check out the schedule & register!

Graduate Student Appreciation Week is next week! We're excited to recognize graduate students and highlight their contributions to our campus and community. Visit our Promotional Kit for photos, gifs, Zoom backgrounds, signage, and more to help you celebrate. Swing by our kickoff event at Anniversary Plaza on Monday from 10 to 1 to record a message of gratitude and show support to grad students!

Considering NVivo for your qualitative or mixed-methods project? Join this workshop for an overview of the capabilities of NVivo for analyzing text, media, and survey data. Attend online or in-person in Library 314. Can't make it live? Take a look at slides and a recording from a previous offering of this workshop on the Qualitative Data Analysis research guide. 

The Civic Symposium, Friday, October 27th explores “civic health” in communities; the impact of digital media and youth engagement; public service and volunteerism as paths to social change; and misinformation and its role in undermining the democratic structure.  Join our discussion from 11-3pm at Levis Faculty Center 210.  Find more information at https://civiclife.illinois.edu/democracy-summit/

The Democracy Summit keynote lecture by Professor Daniel Ziblatt is Monday,October 23rd at 6:30pm in Spurlock Museum Auditorium. Daniel Ziblatt is the Eaton Professor of Government at Harvard University, NYT 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.  

Ain Gordon as writer/director/performer and Josh Quillen as composer/performer with dramaturgy by Talvin Wilks and lighting design by Jennifer Tipton. Relics… frames a story from Quillen’s Ohio family: their 3-year odyssey following his father Jerry’s 2006 ALS diagnosis. 

This concert features the historic work Steps in the Street (from Chronicle) by modern dance pioneer, Martha Graham and work from current professors and students; Nawal Assougdam, Professor Cynthia Oliver, Assistant Head Anna Sapozhnikov, and Assistant Professor Alexandra Barbier.

Tickets are on sale for Allerton holiday events: Holiday [Showcase + GLOW] Opening Night, Holiday Showcase presented by Sterling Wealth Management, Winter Bash, Sweets With Santa Presented by State Bank of Bement, Sensory Hour Sweets With Santa Presented by Lighthouse Autism Center, Holiday Affair presented by Ion: A Masquerade Ball and so much more! A full list is available on the park website.

Join others around a campfire at Allerton for Fireside Fridays. The subject for Oct. 13 (5-8pm) is Spiders, Bats and Creepy Crawlies with talks on spiders, bats and more! Register here. The Nov. 3 event (6-9pm) will be  Goblins, Ghouls & Grandma?!? (A Dia de los Muertos Celebration. Learn about Dia de los Muertos and the ghost story of the 'weeping woman'. $5/person (5&under free).

Saxophonist Eddie Barbash and the KASA Quartet unite to breathe new life into the timeless tradition of jazz with strings. The joyous improvisation and swing of Eddie's jazz quartet combine with the lush sound of the KASA Quartet to bring you the best of both worlds: an octet that may make you shout with joy.

Join us for a talk by Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan, Nobel Prize laureate and Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, United Kingdom, entitled “My Adventures in the Ribosome.”

Gene Machine combines science and music for an evening to thrill the mind and soul. This unique event features a conversation between Nobel Prize laureate Venki Ramakrishnan and members of the University of Illinois scientific community, along with musical performances by his son, renowned cellist Raman Ramakrishnan, and concert pianist and conductor Benjamin Hochman.

The University Library is hosting a food and personal item drive to benefit the Student Food Pantry in the Orange Room of the Main Library. Donations should be non-perishable, unopened, canned or packaged goods, and/or personal hygiene, menstrual, and baby products (i.e. wipes). Drop-off locations are at Grainger Engineering Library, Funk ACES Library, and the Orange Room in the Main Library.

Peer review was implemented in scholarly journals in the middle of the 16th century to improve the quality and select manuscripts for publication. This workshop will give you an overview of the history of peer review, the role of authors, reviewers, and authors, types of peer review models, their pros and cons, and patterns of evaluation in different disciplines.

Join the CGS team for another Fall Event Series where Dr. Jim Best will give their lecture, "The Future of the World’s Great Rivers: Anthropogenic Stresses, Impacts and Possible Solutions." This talk will review the wide range of anthropogenic stresses affecting the world’s large rivers and discuss their impact on the physical and human landscapes on which they are situated.

The Office of the Provost and in partnership with the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation invite you to attend the Charting Your Path as an Assistant Professor workshop: Demystifying the Academic Research Enterprise: Becoming a Successful Scholar in a Complex and Competitive Environment with speaker, Dr. Kelvin K. Droegemeier. Please register here by Nov. 1.

What sidewalk, bike path, street, crosswalk, and bus stop improvements are needed along Lincoln Ave., from Green St. to Florida Ave.? The Champaign-Urbana Urbanized Area Transportation Study (CUUATS) is hosting a Lincoln Avenue Corridor Study Open House on Oct. 10 (4 p.m.) to review existing conditions and identify future infrastructure upgrades and safety enhancements for the 1.2 mile stretch.

"Mapping the contribution of astrocytes to brain computation and outputs," by Thomas Papouin, PhD, Department of Neuroscience, Washington University in St Louis – My lab explores conditions that determine astrocyte activity and outputs, circuit and behavioral impacts of astrocyte signaling, and computational and biomedical opportunities of astrocyte outputs on neural circuits.

Raise breast cancer awareness by participating in fun activities facilitated by 7 campus organizations and by walking around the Main Quad! Illini Student-Athlete Kelsey Rothas has a special story and invites you to help fight breast cancer! The $5 RSVP fee benefits My Density Matters, which supports breast cancer screening. RSVP - Click Here! (5:00pm Activity Booths + Raffle, 5:30pm Walk)

There are many scams and cyber security threats, but most of them are avoidable. Everyone can be a victim of a scam. However, international students are often an easy target. This presentation will expand your knowledge about how to spot and protect yourself from a scam, and also what should you do if you suspect that you were a victim. 

Srinanda Ganguly  is a PhD candidate in the Art History program at the School of Art and Design, UIUC. She will talk about histories of South Asian architecture, the chhatri – a domed kiosk supported by slim pillars – has long been held to be a Hindu, Rajput architectural element owing to its popular use as commemorative device for Rajput rulers from the 17th century onwards

"Mapping the contribution of astrocytes to brain computation and outputs," by Thomas Papouin, PhD, Department of Neuroscience, Washington University in St Louis  Research in my lab explores conditions that determine astrocyte activity & outputs, impacts of astrocyte signaling at circuit & behavioral levels, and computational and biomedical opportunities of astrocyte outputs on neural circuits.

Join us at the Disability Justice Gathering, a free public 2-day event (online & in person) to kick off conversations and initiatives surrounding disability justice on our campus and beyond. The event will feature invited Disability Justice scholars, local community organizers, faculty, students, and CU community members. Learn more & register: https://just-infras.illinois.edu/disability-justice/

Sign up by Oct. 10 for the Illinois Green Infrastructure & Erosion Control Conference, Oct. 24 at I Hotel & Conference Center. This one-day in-person conference will bring together designers, contractors, students, and staff to explore and advance the use of stormwater erosion control and green infrastructure in municipal management. Lunch, breakfast will be offered and 5 PDH/CEU hours available.

In this talk Antoinette Burton repurposes Samantha Frost’s definition of the biocultural for use in the context of 19th-century British imperial politics. Framing empire itself as biocultural shifts the emphasis from the fiction of humans’ sovereignty toward their interdependence with the nonhuman animal and its habitats. 

La Tanya S. Autry, Njoki Ngumi, Saitabao Kaiyare "If Objects Could Speak”: A Screening and Panel Discussion on African Art, Museum Reckoning,and the Politics of Restitution

Please join us for the University Archives' monthly Women in Science Lecture Series on October 12 from 12 -1 pm. Dr. Donna J. Cox, Michael Aiken Chair Emerita and Professor Emerita of Art & Design, will share her career in the Advanced Visualization Laboratory at NCSA and her research on scientific visualizations. This is a hybrid event at the University Archives or register for the zoom link.

Concerned about hearing loss? The UIUC chapter of the Student Academy of Audiology is sponsoring a free hearing screening event for all AHS faculty and staff at the UIUC Audiology & Speech Language Pathology Clinic, on Friday, Oct 13th, from 8AM to 4PM. Appointments are limited. Please sign up using the link. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C094FA4AF2AA2FFC07-44815637-free

The Fall Concert celebrates the 55th year on the UIUC campus with music from the Black Sacred traditions. Highlights include Dr. K. Edward Copeland’s cantata, “I Sing for Joy” written for Dr. Ollie Watts Davis, and participation of alumni as soloists and instrumentalists. Tickets at: LESEDI 10/15/23 Black Chorus Annual Fall Concert Tickets (uillinois.edu)

Looking for a sustainable way to shop? Check out the campus Clothing Swap on Wednesday, Oct. 11, sponsored by iSEE, Students for Environmental Concerns, and the Student Sustainability Leadership Council. Donate your gently used clothes and shop for items donated by others — for free! Clothes can be dropped off between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday-Tuesday, Oct. 9-10, at the Channing-Murray Foundation.

October is Sustainability Month, and iSEE invites you to join our month-long Sustainable Habits Challenge! We are asking our community to take individual steps at home, at work, and on campus to reduce consumption and live a more sustainable life. You can track your weekly progress — and you might win a sustainability prize! Check out events throughout October on our Sustainability Month Calendar!

The Fab Lab Holiday Maker Market will run November 25 & 26th from 2pm - 8pm. Along with one-of-a-kind Fab Lab made goods we want to highlight the diversity of makers in our community and encourage you to apply. Vendors: Apply by October 23rd at 11:59pm, and the juried selection list of vendors will be shared October 27. * Fab Lab proceeds will directly benefit the Summer Camp Scholarship Fund.

What can we learn from students' emotions to the writing assignments we give? How can we use that knowledge to support students' self-efficacy? A workshop led by The Program in Professional Writing and SCD will answer these questions and more. See how emotion and learning connect. Practice perspective taking and how to respond to students' emotions to further learning. Open to all instructors.

Join us for a lecture by Mayra Saenz, PhD Candidate in Agricultural and Consumer Economics. She will investigate the impact of institutional factors on upward intergenerational transfers from adult children to their older parents. Please register here. Lunch is included with registration.

In Myanmar’s first and only country-wide environmental movement, Indigenous women activists and punk rock pastors defend a sacred river from a Chinese-built megadam through protest, prayer, and Karaoke music videos. In-person screening followed by online discussion with director Emily Hong and producer Maggie Lemere.(MYANMAR/USA/THAILAND. 86 min. Jinghpaw/Burmese w/ English subtitles.)

Please join us as for this special evening with U.S. Poet Laureate, Ada Limón. Part conversation and part poetry reading, the event follows Limón as she shares with us how poetry connects us to the world, allows us to heal, to love, to grieve, and reminds us of the full spectrum of human emotion.

Fan Lam, an assistant professor of bioengineering, will present "Multiscale, multiparametric biochemical imaging of the brain" at noon on Thursday, Oct. 12 in 1005 Beckman. Lunch will be provided. Registration is required.

The campus will hold a Mental Health Wellness Fair, featuring university departments, academic programs, and student organizations that have a special interest in and services available to enhance the mental health of students, faculty, and staff. If faculty would like to offer extra class credit to encourage students to attend, there will be proof of attendance documentation.

Join Migdalia Carrion-Alers of the Federal Highway Administration as she presents via Zoom at the Fall 2023 Kent Seminar Series Thursday, October 12, from 2-3 p.m. (CT). Pizza and soft drinks will be provided beginning at 1:30 p.m. in the ICT Classroom. 

Join HRI for an evening talk/performance featuring Damon Locks (Chicago-based artist, educator, musician and leader of the Black Monument Ensemble) and Tara Aisha Willis (Curator in Performance & Public Practice, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago). This event is part of the Interseminars series for "Improvise and Intervene," supported by the Mellon Foundation.

After more than thirty-five years of conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, the world is witnessing a profound change and a humanitarian crisis with many layers of history and memory. Please join us on Wednesday, October 11, 2023, as we discuss this unfolding crisis. 

ICPSR provides access to research data from over 18,000 studies (e.g., arts, criminal justice, education, health, and social, behavioral, and economic sciences). You will learn search strategies for finding data and be introduced to additional resources available for using data in teaching and meeting data sharing requirements. We'll cover data highlights, training, scholarships and more.

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!

Whether you're a student, a scholar, or simply someone interested in a policy issue, understanding how to locate federal and state court decisions, statutes, regulations, and interpretive legal sources is crucial. Join this Savvy Researcher workshop to learn how to locate federal and state bills, statutes, regulations, and court decisions, along with invaluable insights into the formation of laws.

It’s time to dust off your super hero capes and join the Comic Book Data Edit-A-Thon next Tuesday, October 10th, hosted by the Graphic Possibilities Research Workshop. We’ll be focusing on comics published in Illinois with beginner-friendly tutorials throughout the day to guide you through the wikidata editing process. Feel free to drop in for a short editing burst or hang out for longer.

Attendees will become familiar with the differences between a dissertation and first book manuscript, and will further learn about identifying points of revision, creating a revision plan/timeline, approaching editors/presses, writing a book proposal, and the publishing process at a glance.

In this workshop, you will 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 (but not required) that you have a REDCap account prior to attending the workshop. No prior REDCap experience is necessary.

Tired of getting zero results in your database searches? This workshop will break down how the professionals identify resources, and search for articles, books, and other scholarly works. We’ll cover chasing citations, creating optimal keyword searches, using built-in database functions to improve your searches, and other strategies to make you a more efficient researcher.

In this workshop students will learn about best practices for creating infographics, and be introduced to several free online tools that allow users to create their own infographics, including: Piktochart, Infogr.am, and Visme. The session will end with a practice activity where participants are encouraged to use the webtool of their choice.

The Collaboration Cafe is a monthly webinar, hosted by the NCSA-led Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub, to explore funding opportunities and foster collaborative proposal development. On Wednesday October 18 at 3:00pm CT, the webinar will discuss the NSF program "Strengthening the Cyberinfrastructure Professionals Ecosystem (SCIPE)" with an NSF program director and prior awardees.

The University of Illinois Web Conference committee is hosting a social media workshop with Annie Adams (Digital Content Strategist, Department of Computer Science,The Grainger College of Engineering). Together, we'll explore social media's role in higher education communication strategy. Learn more about this workshop! 

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month and in celebration we are seeking originality in a haiku that helps the university community understand phishing or other cybersecurity topics. You can submit an original haiku or one generated with AI assistance using this form: https://go.uillinois.edu/haiku. 

Illinois researchers are invited to an interactive workshop aimed to deepen their understanding of power analysis, enhance the quality and reliability of their research, and better position them to submit successful research proposals. During the workshop, participants will engage in hands-on exercises using real-life data sets. New registrants will be on Zoom as the in-person option is full.

This online workshop with Q+A is geared towards grad students and early-career scholars. Our two speakers – Faith Wilson Stein, Senior Acquisitions Editor at Northwestern University Press, and Colleen Lucey, Professor and author of Love for Sale: Representing Prostitution in Imperial Russia (2021) – will discuss book proposals, timelines, tips for reworking the dissertation, and more.  

Dr. Michel Dumontier, Distinguished Professor of Data Science at Maastricht University and co-founder of the FAIR data principles, will present "Towards Biomedical Neurosymbolic Al: From Knowledge Infrastructure to Explainable Predictions." We continue the CIRSS speaker series in Fall 2023 with a focus on "Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Computing". 

This tutorial, offered by QuEra Computing Inc., will have two sessions. The first, on 10/18, will present an overview of neutral-atoms-based quantum computers. The second, on 10/23, will be hands-on and teach the fundamentals of how to use Bloqade to solve quantum simulations and optimization problems. To register by 10/16 and to find more info, use the link in the title.

The Provost's Office invite you to the Through the Faculty Ranks session on generative AI in Education. In this virtual workshop, we will explore the possibilities of generative AI for the education of the future, uncover some of the latest trends and concerns among those in academia, and learn about the various campus resources to support faculty on this topic.  Click here to register.

The Geotechnical Engineer is responsible for providing long term solutions to develop infrastructure while accommodating natural landscapes and changes in geology. Expansive soils, changes in weather, drainage conduits, dynamic loading, surface water runoff, future construction, and changes in ultimate configurations must all be considered when designing retaining walls and slopes. 1.0 PDH

Join us this Friday the 13th via Zoom to delve into the captivating world of witches, demons, and women's history through a spellbinding lecture and a rare glimpse into the past. We’ll leave no cauldron unturned as we explore the origins, powers, and misunderstood narratives surrounding these topics. Expand your knowledge, challenge stereotypes, and embrace the magic within — pre-register here!

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 contactjgn3@illinois.edu if interested.

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, and sub-maximal exercise test. Compensation up to $50. Click here if interested!

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. 

Looking for children (age 8-12) who are native speakers of American English and have normal hearing. Participants will receive a hearing screening and listen to sentences in noise while wearing a portable EEG during a single 1 hour visit. Compensation of $20 cash will be provided at completion. To learn more email:smurgia2@illinois.edu. Pasquale Bottalico • Department of Speech and Hearing Science

Recruiting adults ages 18-75 years for STARC study. The STARC study investigates the relationships between arterial health, stress reactivity, and cognitive function. Participation involves 1 lab visit (4.5 hours). You will receive $75 in Amazon e-gift cards as compensation. Email: starc2study@gmail.com Sign up for a screening call to see if you qualify: https://starc2researchstudy.youcanbook.me/

UIUC graduate study seeks kids aged 8-15 and a guardian to play or watch as a family team to investigate how family members learn about climate change from movies and video games. The session is < 45 minutes and will be in-person at the Children’s Research Center. The child receives a $20 Amazon gift card for participating. Email AJ Christensen with questions: achrist3@Illinois.edu