The Office of the Provost invites you to nominate exceptional faculty members who exemplify outstanding leadership qualities, with a particular emphasis on their forward-thinking vision for the future and their dedication to empowering others in shaping that future. Nominations will be accepted until January 10, 2024.

This year's Uni High Oral History Project will explore the intersection of technology and society. We seek a diverse group of interviewees ages 70+ who could share with our students how daily technology has changed during their lifetime. If you or someone you know might be a good interviewee, please be in touch to learn more.

Please join us for this month’s Seminar "The Stu/dio: Innovations in Student-Driven Development & Serious Games - Learning Through Play" on 11/02 at 12:00PM. Daniel Cermak (Informatics) discusses STU/DIO, a student-driven initiative combining student skills with faculty direction. Katryna Starks (Game Studies and Design) highlights how games integrate valuable content for lifelong learning.

Three policies have been removed from the CAM Website: Quadrangle Noise, Approval of General Education Sequences, and Academic Professional Position and Title Approval.

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. Deadline to apply is November 1, 2023. 

To assist evening campus commuters during the winter, the Parking Department will implement the following enforcement policy: effective Nov. 6, 2023-March 8, 2024, all university rental lots posted for enforcement from 6 a.m.-5 p.m. (M-F) will be open for general public parking beginning 4 p.m. All street meters and 24-hour parking rental areas will continue to be enforced as posted.

LAS Career Services launched a new website! Our resources cater to current and prospective College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (LAS) undergraduate students – those who are beginning to explore options, seeking opportunities, making connections and building networks, applying to jobs or graduate school, and even those who aren’t sure where to begin.

In compliance with the Illinois State Board of Education, the Council on Teacher Education (CoTE) approves qualifying professional development events and microcredentials for licensed educators. All departments or units that want to award professional development hours (PDHs) must secure advanced approval by submitting a PDH proposal on the CoTE website. 

This event, initially scheduled for October 31 has been postponed. The new date and location will be announced as soon as possible.

Should your journey be guided by self-interest, your dreams, and your ambitions, or is there a higher calling, an altruistic purpose in helping others? Featuring renowned speaker Yaron Brook. This is more than an event; it's a call to examine, challenge, and inspire the very fabric of your beliefs. 

The Cancer Center at Illinois' TEP Shared Resource has a new PhenoCycler-Fusion Imaging-Based Spatial Phenotyping System available for researchers. Join us on Nov. 30th at the Beckman Institute (Room 2269) as Avik Mukherjee, a Senior Technical Applications Scientist at Akoya Biosciences, discusses the new equipment and answers questions. Registration is required.

This session introduces the podcasting equipment and technology available to our campus community from the libraries. In addition to familiarizing ourselves with the equipment for recording, we will cover some beginning recording and audio editing techniques, particularly within the software Audacity.

Join the Physics Department for this fall's Saturday Physics for Everyone on Saturday, the 4th. This in-person lecture series continues with Elizabeth Goldschmidt's "Quantum Networking with Photons". Snacks will be served at 10:00AM and the lecture begins at 10:15AM. This event is free and open to everyone: friends, family, kids and grandparents. We hope to see you there!

The objective of this symposium is to strengthen research collaborations with colleagues from Mexico on issues concerning the politics of inclusion in the Americas. We will discuss strategies to support Mexican and Mexican American students and communities. Register to participate via Zoom or in-person. Please join and share the flyer. 

Fatima Husain, a professor of speech and hearing science, will present "Missing sounds and hearing unwanted sounds: The neuroscience of hearing disorders." Lunch will be provided. Registration is required to attend.

Join the Indian Graduate Students Association in collaboration with the Asian American Cultural Center for a Diwali celebration including home-cooked food, music, and the beautiful lighting of the Quad.  Free with food available for purchase.

Join us for an inspiring 2-day celebration of innovation, research, and entrepreneurship under the compelling theme "practice makes scholarship," this event promises insightful talks, engaging discussions, and networking. This first session "Discovering Opportunities in the Cannabis Industry" will be hosted by Associate Professor Justin Leiby. 

The Astronomy Department welcomes everyone to attend the Icko Iben Jr. Distinguished Lecture, "JWST: 25 Years to Build, One Year to Change Astronomy," presented by Marcia J. Rieke, Regents' Professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona and Principal Investigator for the near-infrared camera on the James Webb Space Telescope. Join us in person or via Zoom

The Fall Playful by Design (PbD) Symposium sponsored by Games Studies & Design will be held November 2-4. Featuring keynote presentations, a transdisciplinary Town Hall faculty gathering, a socially engaged role-playing simulation, panels highlighting creative work happening across our campus, and a CUDO Plays boardgame contest playtesting opportunity. All events are free and open to the public.

At Design Thinking Drop Ins, we're tearing down the silos. It's an exciting rendezvous where minds from every corner of UIUC converge, united by a common thread: developing innovative solutions through human-centered design. Bring your project and get feedback on how you might incorporate design thinking to take it to the next level.  Please feel free to share with your classes.  

Grainger Engineering is proud to announce the launch of the first publicly available quantum network, ushering in a new era of accessibility and democratization of quantum information science. Celebrate this accomplishment with us from 1-4 pm Nov. 4. at the Urbana Free Library!  Enjoy hands-on activities, a live demonstration, and more. More information: https://iquist.illinois.edu/pqn.

Join us for the "Writing Effective Fellowship Proposal" Graduate Student Workshop, led by Dr. Dana Johnson, Assistant Director of External Fellowships at the Graduate College. Following this section, some graduate students from various disciplines will share essential information and valuable tips to craft successful fellowship proposals. Please register through this link!

The Office of the Assistant Vice President of Procurement Services is hosting a community event to assemble and donate STEM kits to a local boys and girls club. This event will also recognize a recent diversity partnership between Fisher Scientific and The Will Group. Please join us for remarks at 10am and assemble a STEM kit immediately after. We look forward to seeing you! Register here!

Thinking of enrolling in The Farms: An Allerton Folk School? Here are some upcoming courses: Simmer Pot Workshop on Nov. 9 (register by Nov. 9); Fall Flower Arranging with Rick Orr on Nov. 12 (register by Oct. 29); Basket Weaving — ‘Thankful’ on Nov. 18 (register by Nov. 4); Creating an Individual Path to Wholeness on Nov. 17 & Dec. 15 (register by Nov. 13 and Dec. 11). 

On Thursday, November 2nd, the Illinois Leadership Center & We CU will be holding our Entering Community Partnerships workshop. The workshop will provide your students with guidance on how to successfully collaborate in & reflect upon service partnerships with community organizations. Dinner will be served, but space is limited. Please share this opportunity; interested students can register here.

Interweaving spoken word, rap, and traditional dialogue for a hip hop tale of love and authenticity set in the late 1990s, The Realness introduces T.O.—a young man thrust into a captivating hip hop scene filled with stories, struggles, and a mesmerizing female MC, Prima. The Realness is a journey that explores the discovery of our own authentic voice, growing up, and falling in love.

Jonathan Larson’s Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical RENT follows a year in the lives of young artists seeking connections, navigating political instability, mourning losses, and facing the relentless toll of the AIDS virus. Full of song, sex, and celebration, RENT re-envisions Puccini’s classic opera La Bohéme for the zeitgeist of a Gen X world. 

Join Japan House interns on an interactive exploration of Onigiri (Japanese rice balls) and their history, culture, and preparation methods. You will learn to make your own onigiri, try out onigiri from different parts of Japan (all vegetarian). Your presence and participation will directly support Onigiri Action, a campaign to give school meals to children in need around the world!

The full schedule is on the HGMS Blog, Days and Memory. (If you navigate straight to the blog you may need to click “archive” and then click on the conference title for the full schedule).

Lecture title: “Arts of the Border: Kino-Aesthetics and the Movement of Refugees”

The “Elevating Voices” series centers the need for racial and social justice discussions while elevating and empowering the voices of underrepresented populations and groups. We’ve added three new works to the current collection of eight pieces, which we will celebrate at an unveiling reception on Nov. 4. The artists will attend to share the inspiration and meaning behind their work. RSVP here.

Allerton-in-Resident Kelsey Zlevor will host Mental Landscapes: Designing for Depression—A Community Workshop on Sat., Nov. 4 (1-3 p.m.) and Thur., Nov. 9 (6-8 p.m.) in The Studio. Creations from this workshop will feed directly into a community mapping resource that will highlight spaces at Allerton to visit the while experiencing depressive symptoms. Free, but capacity is limited. Register here.

CEAPS will be screening the documentary, "Try Harder!" with a follow up Q&A with the filmmakers.  This is a family friendly event, but open to anyone interested in the topic of college applications and the stresses and pressure they bring.  There will be a pizza dinner before the event for high school educators, students, and their families.. Please register to help with planning.

"Therapeutic approaches to multiple sclerosis: Initiating remyelination and immunomodulation using estrogen receptor β ligands," by Seema Kaushalya Tiwari-Woodruff, PhD, School of Medicine, University of California Riverside – Seminar on identification of novel estrogen receptor ligands that are immunomodulatory and induce functional remyelination in different mouse models of multiple sclerosis.

Do you know there is a produce field located just 2 miles off campus? Farm to Table feature dishes made from ingredients harvested at the Sustainable Student Farm and an interactive learning experience. Join us to fuel your brain and body with green goodness at the Instructional Kitchen! Registration fee: $5 for student; $15 for member; $20 for non-member

Join Cheng Ling, of Pike Industries, as he presents in person at the Fall 2023 Kent Seminar Series Thursday, November 2, from 2-3 p.m. (CT). Pizza and soft drinks will be provided beginning at 1:30 p.m. in the ICT Classroom. 

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 Thursday November 9 at 3:00pm CT, the webinar will discuss workforce development via the NIH R25 program "Education Activities for Responsible Analyses of Complex, Large-Scale Data" with an NIH program officer.

Please encourage undergrads in your networks to learn more about the 10-week Community-Academic Scholars summer program to conduct research impacting our local community. During the info session, we will discuss the program, application process, and how scholars are matched with research projects, share some past projects, and hear directly from two 2023 scholars about their experience.

R is an open-source and flexible programming language that can be used for all kinds of data analysis, data visualization, text mining, and even document creation. For anyone interested in using R for qualitative or liberal arts research, this workshop will show you how to get started in R with absolutely no coding experience necessary.

Are you preparing for an upcoming conference? Need to design a poster for your class? This workshop will give you tools for communicating your research for academic conferences and professional meetings in a concise and visually effective poster presentation. This event is co-sponsored by the University Library, the Writers Workshop, and the Office of Undergraduate Research.

Uncanny Journeys: Magical Realism and the Narrative of the Refugee in Exit West and What Strange Paradise. This lecture focuses on a reading of two contemporary novels: Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West and Omar El Akkad’s What Strange Paradise in the light of magical realism. 

Whether it’s new technology, texts, calls, emails, or in-person, criminals are finding new ways to obtain your sensitive data. Find out how to protect yourself or your business from fraud, recognize identity theft, and what to do if you're affected by social engineering or security breaches on November 8 with this free webinar, “Don’t Get Phished: Avoid Scams & Fraud”. Register here.

A Special Presentation by the Slavic Reference Service: four collections will be highlighted: The Blondheim Judaica Digital Library, Memoirs of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Women, The Sisters Khvoshchinskaya, and Central Asian Memoirs of the Soviet Era. Each collection reflects everyday lives and cultural memory from the nineteenth to late twentieth centuries.

Join us via Zoom for a Q&A with tech journalist Kara Swisher, host of the interview podcast On with Kara Swisher and cohost of the tech/business/politics podcast Pivot with NYU Marketing Prof. Scott Galloway. She's covered the tech industry since the ’90s, interviewing Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and others, and became known as “Silicon Valley’s most feared and well-liked journalist.”

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 a research team working on understanding student perceptions of generative AI models. We invite students at UIUC to complete a 10-15 minute survey about classroom rules surrounding AI use. If you are interested, click here. 

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

Are you 50+ and consider yourself Hispanic/Latino? Do you have access to internet at home? You may be eligible for a FREE 6-month Latin Dance + Health Education or Latin Dance + Nutrition Program! You can receive up to $60 for participation. If interested, please contact aguinagalab@gmail.com or click on the link in the title to fill out an interest form. 

All meals are provided for 12 weeks. 3 urine collections, 4 blood draws and 7 fecal donations will be required. Those without food allergies, intestinal disease, diabetes, gallbladder removal or bariatric surgery may qualify. BMI greater than 25 meets inclusion criteria. For your participation, you will receive up to $1000. To learn more and find out if you qualify contact: maggieo4@illinois.edu 

The Cognitive Neuroimaging Lab is recruiting people between the ages of 25-75 (native English speakers) for a multi-session study on arterial health and cognition. Compensation and parking will be provided. For more information, please email brain-research@illinois.edu including your name, age, and contact information and indicate that you interested in the “cognition study.”