The Global Diasporas Program is hosting a meet and greet event for students and scholars who are interested in diasporic subjects, diaspora and transnational communities. All are welcome!

Whether you are a commuter, a resident, or a visitor, the Illinois Department of Transportation wants to hear your insights on and experiences with the state's transportation system. The 2024 Long-Range Transportation Plan (LRTP) Public Engagement Survey only takes a few minutes to complete. Your input will help shape objectives that will guide future transportation planning and improvements.

Revisions have been made to the Vision 2030 Global Strategy Implementation Grant to clarify common questions regarding use of the funding. Please review the Implementation Grant webpage for updated information. Applications continue to remain open for all opportunities including the Staff Global Exchange Program and Transdisciplinary Global South Community-Based Learning Program Development Grant.

With funding from the Provost, the Library is sponsoring a program for instructors to create new open textbooks to reduce textbook costs for students. Tenure-line and specialized faculty—and lecturers—are eligible. Award recipients will develop content, test it in courses during the 2024-25 academic year, and revise it. Proposals are due Nov 15 (awards announced Jan 2024). See details above.

The campuswide Community-Academic Scholars Program matches researchers with undergraduate research assistants who receive training, guidance, and a stipend to support their success. Faculty and staff who conduct community-engaged research on issues related to health, poverty, or social inequity are encouraged to submit a project proposal by Jan 12. 

NCSA’s Delta offers GPU-accelerated computing and data resources with access to CPU resources and storage. UIUC researchers can easily obtain Delta allocations through ACCESS at any time for 3 different tiers. Large allocation requests should be submitted during the Maximize ACCESS period Dec. 15–Jan. 31. Awards begin April 1. Click here for more info on Delta allocations options.

The Women's Resources Center is now accepting applications for the Verdell Frazier Young (VFY) Scholarship on a rolling basis. The VFY Scholarship provides scholarships to assist women and gender minorities who have had an interruption in pursuing a college degree. To learn more or apply, visit: https://go.illinois.edu/VFY

The Personalized Nutrition Initiative is excited to announce a new call for seed grant proposals; up to $50,000. We are partnering with the CSBS and the Healthcare Innovation Program Office at NCSA to encourage collaborative efforts among personalized nutrition scientists, social and behavioral scientists, and scientists working in advanced computing, software, data, and visualization.

Marissa Lombardi, Executive Director of Training, Programs, and Services at The Forum on Education Abroad, shares how a non-linear path led to a thriving career in education abroad. What began as an English teaching role for bank officials in Italy over time evolved into an insatiable passion for immersive learning.

The Watershed Management Research and Outreach Undergraduate Internship Program helps students from gain valuable experience to pursue future careers in watershed management. Extension faculty at seven different institutions, including the University of Illinois. Mentor interns over the summer. Please share this opportunity with undergraduates who might be interested.

STAT 427 (Statistical Consulting) class needs clients for spring semester of 2024. If you have a statistical problem and are interested in obtaining free assistance from a team of student consultants starting in January 2024, please contact instructor Yuguo Chen at yuguo@illinois.edu. In order to be eligible, you need to have data available by the beginning of spring term of 2024.

Plan ahead for upcoming deadlines - book your appointments now! The Writers Workshop will be closed 11/18-11/26 for Fall Break. We will resume our regular hours on Monday, 11/27.

SKY Meditation at UIUC is organizing its annual flagship fall event to celebrate Pumpkin Carving and Diwali with Meditation this week! Join us to get in the fall spirit, and go deep within! All materials will be provided, no experience required! There will be some snacks provided post the event. Feel free to bring your friends! RSVP here: https://forms.gle/WjuY6ePK36vZZYwy9

This workshop will explain peer review policy, its connection to publication criteria, peer review models, and reviewer guidelines and its importance in guiding reviewers throughout the peer review process. In addition, the instructor will share resources to help editors write a peer review policy. Audience: editors and editorial board members including for undergraduate journals.

Celebrate International Education Week starting November 5! From cultural fairs to potlucks, lectures, and musical events, there are opportunities for all students, faculty, staff, and members of the community to celebrate the impact of global education, cultural exchange, and scholarship uniquely experienced on our campus. Visit the IEW event calendar for detailed information.

Join us for an inspiring 2-day celebration of innovation, research, and entrepreneurship under the compelling theme "practice makes scholarship". This second session "Nurturing Entrepreneurship within Illinois" will be hosted by Dr. Gerald Wilson, newly appointed Director of Entrepreneurship and William Langston, a dedicated PhD student at the iSchool.

This AI in Music presentation will trace the history of computer-assisted music composition (originated at UIUC), and computer-generated music.  It will introduce the historically significant, as well as the most modern AI tools for music creation, while discussing their practical, ethical, and legal applications.

James Elkins "Unsolved Issues in Contemporary Art Criticism" 

Allison Morehead "Edvard Munch and the 'Great Cause': Abortion, Eugenics, Whiteness."

Intricate Nerves, Expanded Bodies is presented by Dance at Illinois students, featuring choreography by Landon Allender, e g condon, Jaymes Crowder-Acres, Khiari Everett, Brooklyn Lutz and Tessa Olson. Free admission, but tickets are required.

Faculty, staff, and graduate students are invited to learn about Partnership Opportunities with Sri Lanka’s University of Peradeniya. The Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture will discuss the University of Peradeniya profile, Faculty of Agriculture research activities, and potential collaborations between Illinois and Peradeniya. Lunch will be provided. Registration required.

Celebrate International Games Month and Week with the Grainger Engineering Library IDEA Lab! We'll have a gaming and academia panel moderated by Games Studies Coordinator Dan Cermack, featuring representatives from VR Club at UIUC, Illini Esports, Illini Metagamers, and GameBuilders. Join us afterward for open gaming and a watch party. Visit the Grainger Engineering Library calendar for details.

Join Amlan Mukherjee of WAP Consulting as he presents via Zoom at the Fall 2023 Kent Seminar Series Thursday, November 9, from 2-3 p.m. (CT). Pizza and soft drinks will be provided beginning at 1:30 p.m. in the ICT Classroom. 

Athletics, Facilities & Services, iSEE, and Coca-Cola are teaming up for the final tailgate recycling event this season.Tailgaters, do your part by recycling plastic bottles & aluminum cans in containers located in Lot 31 & Grange Grove. Staff and faculty can sign up to volunteer on Saturday, Nov. 11. Volunteers receive a free "Be Orange, Go Green" T-shirt!

Engineering the Metabolic Outputs of the Human Gut Microbiome Through Microbial Community-Scale Metabolic Modeling by Sean M. Gibbons, PhD, Associate Professor, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA

We invite Illinois students & families to join us for the Undergrad Research Showcase on Nov 11, 10 - 11AM in the Illini Union Ballroom (2nd floor). Explore remarkable student research at Illinois. Join the Q&A panel after the presentations to learn about undergrad research @ Illinois.  Free & open to all. Register to attend: go.illinois.edu/ResearchShowcaseRegistration. Light refreshments served.

The Latino Student Association, the Central Black Student Union, Beckwith, the Asian American Student Housing Organization and the Inclusion and Leadership Mentors will present on Nov 7, 8, 9, from 6-9pm. They will show what oppression looks like for them. Participants will go on a tour through each exhibit and then debrief with one of the I and L Mentors. Sign up for a time slot today! 

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. 

Join graduate student Mahmoud Mahrous to learn about the use of SEM, Micro CT Profilometer, and Nano Indentation on recent papers, "'Multimodal imaging of hierarchical equine hoof wall porosity and structure" and "Investigating Irradiation effects on Metakaolin-Based Geopolymer." Those who register by Thursday, Nov. 9, will receive a complimentary lunch.

Join therapist Mary Ryan as she helps you grow into personal wholeness through the use of film clips, art, poetry and more during Creating an Individual Path to Wholeness on Nov. 17 and Dec. 15. $140/person. Register for Nov. 17 (by Nov. 13) here. Register for Dec. 15 (by Dec. 11) here. Registration fees include materials. Payment plans are available during the online registration process.

Kick off the holiday season with Allerton's Holiday [Showcase + GLOW] Opening Night on Friday, Dec. 1. Stroll through the lighted gardens of Holiday GLOW, enjoy music from the Quest Church Handbell Choir and Monticello HS Madrigals eat from local food trucks. Then head to the Mansion and do some holiday shopping from vendors at the Holiday Showcase. $10/person (10 & under free). Register here.

Join us for our Veterans Day Celebration, and other events throughout the month of November.  Our 2023 Veterans Day Celebration, is a tribute to military service members. The event on November 10th features guest speaker Mr. Samuel K. Skinner, an Army Veteran with an impressive career, including roles as U.S. Secretary of Transportation and White House Chief of Staff.

Join us for our next Food for Thought on November 10th! 11:00am, Sonali Shah, The Fruits of One’s Labor: Uncovering the Factors that Shape Sustained Technology Adoption Behaviors. Noon, Helga Varden, Some Philosophical Puzzles about Racialization.

Globally inspired program, “Folk Encounters,” pairs Su Lian Tan’s evocation of traditional South Asian puppet theatre with Wynton Marsalis’ exploration of the complicated American Creole experience through the lens of a New Orleans ball. Dvořák’s folk-inspired Viola Quintet reflects the composer’s joy in finding kinship between the folk music of America and his homeland of Czechoslovakia.

The multi-Grammy-winning, San Francisco-based Kronos Quartet will mark its fiftieth anniversary in the 2023/24 season with the KRONOS Five Decades tour, adding to its legacy of innovation by performing programs which feature new commissions, signature works from its vast repertoire, and pieces from Kronos’ Fifty for the Future project.

Zackary Starbird, Global Head of Ethics & Compliance for Trading & Shipping at bp, will present this fall’s Leighton Lecture on "Carrots, Sticks, and Ethics: Getting Incentives Right." Mr. Starbird has 20 years of experience in providing legal support on a full array of commercial, regulatory, litigation, and bankruptcy issues. Register.

Dr. Marc Abou- Abdallah will talk about Lebanon's Psephology and Legislative Elections: Democratic Choices or Power Struggle? 

A steamy prohibition tale, steamrolling and roaring its way across the stage, Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party was an Off-Broadway gem that garnered an array of industry accolades. Based on Joseph Moncure March's 1926 narrative poem of the same name, this darkly brilliant show features one of the most exciting, pulse-racing scores ever written.

The Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence (S-I-R) Program  provides U.S. institutions an opportunity to host a scholar from abroad for a semester or academic year. While on campus, S-I-Rs teach courses, assist in curriculum development, guest lecture, develop partnerships, engage with the campus and community. For more info, register for our live webinar on November 7 at 2:00pm EST.

The 2024-2025 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program application cycle has ended. Get a head start for next year, attend this virtual info session. Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program 2025-26, Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 2-3 PM Eastern. Click Here to Register. 

The next IGET meeting will be on Wednesday, November 8 at 1 PM CST on Zoom. We will be discussing: approaches to reduce anxiety in students, updates on the Moodle Canvas LTI, executive report on Title II, and Canvas Accessibility Checker and Sensus Access with CITL’s new UDL team. Join us here on Wednesday!

Join us to understand how to fund your community-engaged research projects through grants from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). Senior Program Officer Courtney Clyatt will provide an overview and discuss the range of community-engaged work funded through PCORI, and AHS Prof. Robyn Gobin will discuss her experience working with PCORI. A Q&A session will follow. 

The extremely uneven and inequitable impacts of climate change create differential vulnerabilities, experiences, responses, and coping mechanisms worldwide. Climate coloniality clarifies how to understand this in more nuanced ways. Decolonizing climate needs to address the complexities of colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, international development, and geopolitics.

In November's Web Con workshop, "Unlocking Success in Microsoft Teams: A Strategic Approach to Engagement," Rob Watson (Tech Services) will delve into the key principles & practical strategies that drive effective Teams adoption. We will explore the importance of fostering a culture of collaboration & leveraging features to analyze & enhance engagement. Mark your calendars— join us on Zoom!   

Roberto Navigli, a professor of Natural Language Processing in the Department of Computer at the Sapienza University of Rome and head of the Sapienza NLP Group, will present "BabelNet to the Test of Time: Extracting Language-Independent Meaning from Text in the Era of ChatGPT." We continue the CIRSS speaker series in Fall 2023 with a focus on "Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Computing". 

Dr. Kenton McHenry will discuss how software at NCSA has evolved over the years, beginning with 3 small groups agreeing to join forces and through that not only growing into the Software Directorate of 40+ Research Software Engineers, but also establishing an RSE career path, advocating for needed computational modalities, and serving as a global exemplar of how to manage and sustain an RSE group.

Interested in advancing your career in STEM and gaining hands-on experience? Join us on November 9th from 4-5pm CT to learn more about the IL Professional Science Master’s Program at the University of Illinois. Click HERE to register. If you can't attend, please email us at psmdegree@illinois.edu for a recording.  

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.

Archivist and co-founder of The Blackivists Steven Booth joins the RBML via Zoom to discuss the Johnson Publishing Company (JPC) Archive, a collection of more than 4.5 million photographs of published and unpublished works documenting the Black experience, dating from 1942 to the 21st century. All are welcome; please pre-register at go.illinois.edu/Booth to receive the zoom link.

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 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.

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. 

Join our study on speech intelligibility in various background noises. Listen to recorded words with noise, type what you hear. Will take <1hr. Help optimize AirPod settings for clear speech in noise and improve dining hall communication. Requirements: no speech/hearing issues, 17-30 yrs, native English speaker. SpAA Lab. Your contribution is highly appreciated.  Click here if interested!

This U. of I. research studies sex-related perceptions and online sexual behaviors to develop digital educational resources to maximize the benefits and minimize the risks of online sexual practices. Adults of all ages (18+) are welcome to participate in this 10-minutes survey. To participate, please visit: https://illinois.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5iQwhtETCWthH6K

This U. of I. study investigates people’s sex views and sexual self-concept. This study will contribute to effective sex-positive health education. Adults of all ages (18+) are welcome to participate in this 15-minutes survey. To participate, please visit: https://illinois.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3HI8nMbOboLl1X0