The Doctoral Research Support Program and the Writers Workshop are hosting Writing in the Disciplines, an online series that connects doctoral students with faculty, journal editors, and publishers to discuss writing styles and skills in specific disciplines. These events are open to all current doctoral students.

The Doctoral Research Support Program and the Writers Workshop are hosting Writing in the Disciplines, an online series that connects doctoral students with faculty, journal editors, and publishers to discuss writing styles and skills in specific disciplines. These events are open to all current doctoral students.

Almost halfway through! Have you made your pledge yet? Is there a cause that resonates with you? With all that is happening in the world, now is a critical time to consider donating whether it be to support social justice, climate change, quality education or a plethora of other needs in today’s society. There is certainly an organization(s) for you. Questions? ccfd@illinois.edu or 217-265-6398

The 2023 Annual Meeting of the Faculty will be held Monday, October 16, at 3:10 pm in the Illini Union Ballroom (2nd floor). This meeting serves as a central forum for discussing issues affecting us all. President Killeen and Chancellor Jones will participate in the discussions and answer questions. All faculty members are invited to attend; no registration is required.

The next meeting of the 2023-2024 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Senate is on Monday, October 16, at 3:10 pm in the Illini Union Ballroom (2nd floor). Meeting materials are available at https://www.senate.illinois.edu/ss20231016a.asp. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting.

Hosting an event during Black History Month share it with the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center and we will help amplify your work through our annual Black History Month Calendar! The deadline to submit Tuesday, January 2nd at 11:59 PM CT. Link to apply: https://go.illinois.edu/BHMCal

Check out the latest edition of Innovation Insider and take a closer look at Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) efforts to elevate cancer research. This new publication dives into how research at the CCIL is transforming cancer detection and therapies and introduces you to new CCIL members.

The Illinois Water Resources Center requests proposals to fund exploratory research or educational projects that enhance water sciences research and higher education throughout Illinois. Priority topics and specific details here. Notification of Intent due November 1 at 5PM; Full Proposal due November 22 at 5PM. Send materials and questions to Assistant Director, Amy Weckle aweckle@illinois.edu.

Unit One, in collaboration with CU Jazz Festival, is hosting a performance by the 12-piece brass band, Sixth Street Brass.  Come enjoy and dance to the New-Orleans style as well as classic funk, soul R&B and even some pop covers too! This is a free, all-ages event so bring your family and be prepared to dance! 

Flu shots are available to benefit-eligible faculty, staff, and retirees. Employees must present their university ID and proof of state health insurance. State employees must present proof of state health insurance and one other form of ID. Shots available at McKinley, M-F, 9a.m. to 3:30p.m. Visit link for more info and access list of outreach locations.

All departments are invited to participate with a table and giveaways in an Illini Union Trick or Treat event for students on Monday, October 30, from 7-9pm. You are invited to distribute information, giveaways, and candy from your department to current UIUC students. Register to participate. 

Announcing the launch of “Golf Course Management: Best Practices,” a new course available on Coursera. This 5-week online course features expert Bruce Branham, UIUC Crop Science Professor. Learners will explore some of the greatest golf architects who built courses from the 1880s through the 1920s, as well as contemporary golf architects. Enroll for free here using your illinois.edu account. 

Continuing its program mission to democratize research computing and make computing resources and support more accessible to campus, Illinois Computes is providing allocations through Jupyter Notebooks to UIUC researchers free of charge, empowering researchers to dedicate their time/energy to their research, free from software installation and maintenance. Click here for more info and get started!

Get into the spirit of Homecoming Week with our Tailgate Favorites cooking class! Wanting to elevate the nutritional quality of your game day food choices? Join us as we cook some football appetizer classics that you and your tailgating crew can enjoy at Grange Grove this Fall. Registration fee (per person): $12 for Campus Rec member; $20 for non-member. Registration closes on 10/16 12pm. 

We would like to share two opportunities to have Master of Public Health graduate students work with you on projects related to Public Health. Please complete our brief form if you have interest in working with an MPH student for their Internship and/or Capstone experiences. 

Collaborations in the Advancement of Research on Disability (CARD) will host Dr. Emily Tarconish, Ph.D., Teaching Assistant Professor, Special Education, who will present two topics, The Disabled Scholars Coalition, and Experience Accessible Champaign Urbana. Future directions for research on these two projects will be discussed.  RSVP

Five outstanding Gies faculty will deliver a high-level overview of the impact and implications of their research. Topics include, “Translating Innovative Research to Marketplace Success”, “Why Where You Live Matters”, “Promoting Equity and Dispelling Myths in the US Cannabis Market”, “Delivering Social Healthcare to Underserved Communities” and “Perspective-Changing Brands”.

Each year in October, we recognize October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM). It provides an opportunity to show support for survivors, raise awareness of what domestic violence is and how to recognize it, and what we can all do collectively to prevent it. Check out the calendar of events to learn more about opportunities to get involved and show support: https://go.illinois.edu/dvam

Have you been tasked with creating an alternative access plan (AAP) or do you want to learn how your alternative access plans can be more effective? Join Keith Hays, campus ADA IT Coordinator, for a virtual presentation and discussion about the principles of equally effective alternative access plans and the roles and responsibilities for implementing them.

It’s time for the Annual Thanksgiving Meal Drive. The Office of Civic Life is collecting donations to support over 1500 families in the Champaign-Urbana area. Consider coordinating your office or organization to collect individual items or sponsor a complete holiday meal for a family. Donations will be collected through Friday, November 10th and can be delivered to Rm 220 at the University YMCA

In this session, new podcasters learn how to create an intentional, personalized brand to really make their show their own. We cover promoting and marketing podcasts through social media and other ways to get word out!

We have all sat through presentations that were boring, confusing, and drab. How do you communicate your message most succinctly? What visuals will captivate and inform your audience the best? Is it only about your slide design or are there other techniques that leave a lasting impression? In this session we distill the magic that just might take your next presentation from bland to grand.

Reviewers are usually an academic who writes a report to help authors improve a manuscript and assist an editor in making the decision of accepting or rejecting a manuscript. In this workshop, you will learn about the role and the non-role of the reviewer in the peer review process in contrast to the roles of authors and editors, and we will discuss concepts such as bias and reviewer agreement.

Learn how to use EndNote in this intro session, a citation management software program, to keep track and organize citations and cite while you write your papers. Heavily used by researchers across campus, EndNote software is available for purchase for Macs and PCs from the U of I Webstore. If you already own EndNote, check out our EndNote support site for helpful tips and information.

Web of Science is the widest-scoping, multidisciplinary platform of abstract databases for full-text articles, books, and conference proceedings. We will highlight how to search for literature and authors, as well as where to find citation and grant information. Additional features and strategies covered: refining and managing search results, analyzing citations, and unpacking item records.

Join us to welcome Counselor Clinton D. White, the highest-ranking career Foreign Service Officer at USAID who leads agency initiatives on localization, sets the agenda for mission directors overseas, and is responsible for all civil service and foreign service national employees at USAID. Light refreshments served, and there will be time for Q & A. Tell your students! Registration requested.

Irene Hsiao - Storywork: Impression Performance and Conversation with the Artist

Presented via webinar and in-person by Tomasz Kozlowski - Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. This presentation will review the University's research to help advanced reactor technology become a widely deployable, marketable, economic, safe, and reliable option for a clean energy future

A panel discussion and the inaugural event in a series of OVCRI-sponsored events and conversations into the future. This event seeks to create a space for promoting better shared understanding of human subject protections for humanists, social scientists, and other scholars engaged in qualitative or ethnographic research.

Synthesis is the area of human-centered design that will take us from inspiration to ideas. From stories to solutions. Discover practical ways to establish a new perspective and identify innovative opportunities by collaboratively making sense of others’ stories and challenges.  This workshop is a practical exploration of the "Synthesize" space of the HCD process and is open to EVERYONE.  

Enjoy a free concert featuring the Music & Performing Arts Library’s Steinway Duo-Art Reproducing Piano. See the piano in action and learn more about the instrument and roll collection. Visit the Library’s website for more information about the piano and roll collection. 

Please join the College of Education and the Dean's Office for a lecture given by Dr. Jennifer Randall on the subject of Publicly Engaged Research for Social Justice.

Atmospheric Sciences Distinguished Alumni Lecturer Dr. Lourdes Avilés will reminisce about her time at the department, talk about her career path, and provide advice for students seeking to follow their own.  She will talk about how she went from her Ph.D. dissertation work on African easterly waves to her current focus on interdisciplinary connections of atmospheric phenomena.

Grab your fellow witches, ghostly ghouls and best Halloween costume for the Costume Party from 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28 in the Allerton Mansion. A monstrous night is planned with a large dose of haunting festivities, including music from 90’s Daughter, games, a cash bar and snacks. Costumes are highly encouraged but not required. $50/person (21+ only). Register here by 6 p.m.

Introduction to Bookbinding is being offered Nov. 7, Nov. 14, Nov. 21 and Nov. 28 as part of The Farms: An Allerton Folk School. By the end of the course, students will have a complete understanding of the parts of a book, methods of bookbinding and the purpose and function of each binding type. $90/person. Register here.

Several activities have been planned as part of Halloween Spooktacular at Allerton Park. It includes an outdoor Movie Night: Dracula on Oct. 20, a Bigfoot Hunt on Oct. 24, a Costume Party on Oct. 28 and Fireside Friday: Goblins, Ghouls & Grandma?!? (A Dia de los Muertos Celebration) on Nov. 3. Click on the links to register. Come to the park for some spooky fun!

Lori Ringhand will present "Our Democratic Republic" for the 2023 Vacketta-DLA Piper Lecture on the Role of Government and the Law, as part of Homecoming festivities at the College of Law. The lecture will also be available for viewing via livestream. Free and open to the public, a reception will follow in the Peer and Sarah Pedersen Pavilion.

"Start Me Up: Resources, Programs, and Funding for Taking Your Technology to Market" with Jed Taylor. An overview of opportunities and resources for faculty considering commercialization of their research. Learn about in-depth workshops, programs, and trainings as well as grants and funding available for early-stage university-based entrepreneurs. Registration required. 

Please join us for our Food for Thought on October 23rd as two CAS Associates, Anne Sickles and Deke Weaver, lead these two discussions. 11:00am, Anne Sickles, The Quark Gluon Plasma: Looking Inside the Hottest Matter in the Universe; Noon, Deke Weaver, The Unreliable Bestiary and CETACEAN. 

Japan House will be open from 12–4pm for Homecoming on Friday, October 20. Please stop by and have a bowl of tea and sweet at our Homecoming Matcha Café, browse our Mottainai Bazaar goods, and enjoy the gardens! There is no formal tea ceremony offered but guests will be able to still enjoy a bowl of matcha and a special Illini-themed wagashi. Walk-ins welcome but reservations preferred!

You're invited to a Beckman ITG Tech Talk on, "Analyzing 'baby' coral skeleton through Raman spectroscopy and other techniques," with postdoctoral researcher Joaquin Yus Dominguez. Lunch will be provided to those who register by Thursday, Oct. 19.

Green central banking and the European Green Deal are distinct but interconnected concepts that aim to address climate change. Central banks can support the implementation of the European Green Deal by aligning their policies and actions with the broader objectives of the EU's sustainability agenda. Join us for this brown bag talk by economist and visiting scholar Serpil Kahraman.

Can Plains Indian Sign Language contribute to language revitalization efforts? If so, how? Dr. Brenda Farnell will share findings from recent collaborative research with the A’aanih (Gros Ventre) and Nakoda immersion program at Fort Belknap Reservation, Montana, and colleagues from Saskatchewan, Canada. 

Join João Santos of the University of Twente as he presents via Zoom at the Fall 2023 Kent Seminar Series Thursday, October 19, from 2-3 p.m. (CT). Pizza and soft drinks will be provided beginning at 1:30 p.m. in the ICT Classroom. 

Emily Knox, associate professor in the School of Information Sciences and author of Book Banning in 21st Century America and Foundations of Intellectual Freedom, is speaking at F&S' Diversity and Inclusion Noontime Knowledge, on Wed., Oct. 18. Her topic is "On Libraries and Book Bans: Challenges to Vital Community Institutions." Register at https://go.fs.illinois.edu/diversityandinclusion.

This 2-hour session introduces MPI, a standard framework for parallel computing, exploring basic concepts of message passing such as collective communications and MPI library functions. With granted access to a supercomputing cluster, participants will exercise these concepts by parallelizing a machine learning model application. Register by 10/23 and find more info with the link in the title.

Global migration has given rise to a growing population of emerging adults who navigate multiple cultures: biculturals. Interviews with these individuals highlight the challenges posed by expectations around diverse values and ways of life from both family and friends. Learn how the experiences of biculturals can inform new strategies for conflict management in different social spheres.

Dr. Ying Ding, a Bill & Lewis Suit Professor at School of Information, University of Texas at Austin, will present "Knowledge Graph: Drug Discovery, PubMed, and Clinical Trial." We continue the CIRSS speaker series in Fall 2023 with a focus on "Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Computing". 

This workshop focuses on advanced ways Illinois REDCap to 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. Attending the “Introduction to Illinois REDCap” or having a working knowledge of REDCap is recommended before attending this workshop.

This workshop will be an introduction to the qualitative data analysis software Quirkos. This workshop is provided by Quirkos founder Daniel Turner, and will provide attendees with a basic introduction to this tool for data analysis.

Atlas.ti is a software for conducting qualitative and mixed methods analysis. Within an Atlas.ti, you can upload and analyze text, multimedia, or survey data in a way that helps you answer your research question. Atlas.ti  In this workshop, we’ll work towards an understanding of Atlas.ti's capabilities and explore how this tool can be used in your research plan. No experience necessary. 

Are you overwhelmed by organizing your sources? Zotero is a free, open-source citation manager that helps you store and organize your files and insert formatted citations into papers. You will leave this hands-on workshop with a Zotero library set up and ready to use!

Location, location, location! Explore how digital mapping tools can help visualize the intricate (and often surprising) relationship between places, people, and events. We’ll discuss basic principles for designing your own research project while playing with beginner-friendly tools. No prior experience with code needed!

Learn how to make common word processing documents accessible for screen readers, and how to make presentations accessible, using MS Word, MS PowerPoint and Google Docs. We will share best practices for accessibility you can incorporate across formats. We will share implementable strategies/checklists to ensure your research, teaching, and presentations are more accessible to diverse audiences.

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly changing the way that we write and research. How do tools like ChatGPT work?How can we use them effectively and ethically in our scholarship? We'll explore how AI can help you brainstorm, craft titles/abstracts, create outlines, and copyedit. We will discuss techniques for writing effective prompts, copyright considerations, and limitations of AI-generated texts.

The next Online Student Service Watercooler Group (OSSW) meeting is on Wednesday, October 18 at 11 am CT via Zoom. During the meeting, our group of panelists will discuss online pedagogy and share tips for teaching in the online environment. They will also share experiences teaching in hybrid and in-person formats. 

The International & Area Studies Library will be hosting this on Zoom & will send out the invitation link to all who sign up prior to the event starting. For this episode Dani Badami, a student at UIUC, will be making Enchiladas Rojas de Pollo for us - and the recipe will be shared with all attendees after the event, so you can make it yourself!  Make sure you fill out the registration form.

Did you miss our Chinese Names Training over the Summer?  Never fear – we’re offering it again!  Learn how to pronounce Chinese names from native speakers!  Chinese Names Training will be held on Tuesday, October 24th from 12-1pm via Teams.  Register at https://go.illinois.edu/ISSSNames. 

Yahya Ashour was born in 1998 in Gaza, Palestine. He writes poetry and children's books in Arabic and English. He spoke and read poetry in several American universities and organizations. He studied sociology and psychology and worked at several organizations in Gaza as a creative writing mentor for children and young adults.

The 2023 Richard G. & Carole J. Cline Symposium will take place on October 26 and will include a Zoom Roundtable of national experts on the topic of reducing gun violence in the US from 2:30-4:15 pm. Click here for more information about the Cline Symposium or go here to RSVP for the Zoom Roundtable. 

The IHSI BERD team invites all researchers who want to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their intervention strategies to a webinar with Kelley Kidwell, UMich, and Liliane Windsor, UIUC. SMARTs (sequential, multiple-assignment randomized trials) are used to develop adaptive intervention strategies that respond to treatments based on individual needs and mimic real-life practice. 

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 

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!

We are seeking research participants for a study on the use of robots in everyday tasks. You may be eligible to participate if you are 60 years or older and experiencing difficulty with thinking, memory, or concentration. Participants will receive compensation. Please spread the word to family and friends. Email kch-hfa-hri@mx.uillinois.edu or call (217) 300-6071.

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.

We are examining the effects of vary amounts of fat in a meal on the rate of building muscle proteins. The study requires 3 days of participation including 2 full-day trials with blood and muscle sample collection. You get $300 upon completion, information about your body composition (muscle and fat), and results of your lower body strength testing. Contact zanz3@illinois.edu for more information!

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!