A revised policy has been posted to the CAM Website: Alcohol Management Policy. Another revised policy has also been posted to the CAM Website: Reasonable Accommodations Policy.

University of Birmingham and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign provide funding for collaborative projects on sustainability with researchers in the Global South to share how Climate Action and Sustainable Development must accelerate to meet Paris and UNSDGs. Register to attend an online event on Oct. 25, 3 to 4.30 p.m. (UK), 9 a.m. to 10.30 a.m. (Illinois). The application can be found here.

Director of Illinois Computes Chuck Thompson lays out the next steps for the growing program in a statement to researchers, "The Evolving Vision for Illinois Computes: Enhancing Research Access Across All Disciplines." The campus program will move forward with simplifying and improving the overall experience, building awareness and diversifying computing and resource offerings. Read more here!

Support global and local causes with the Campus Charitable Fund Drive (CCFD), the university’s annual employee giving campaign, which kicks off Tuesday, Oct. 8. Make a one-time pledge or establish a payroll deduction. You can learn more at the Agency Fair from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 8, Illini Rooms A,B,C in the Illini Union, or contact your CCFD unit leader.

Take your culinary skills to a new level at Cook a 3-Course Meal from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 15, or Monday, Oct. 28, in the Allerton Mansion Kitchen. Blue Dragonfly Catering owner Leah Bodine will instruct students on basic knife stills as they prepare a 3-course meal. A short wine course will be included. $100 per person. Register here one week before each workshop.

Help by donating new hygiene items to create essential kits for those who could use a little extra support. We’re accepting toothpaste, toothbrushes, body wash, bar soap, feminine hygiene products and more! Drop off donations at the Student Turner Building (bin by the front desk). Your support makes a difference! 

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 and Benefits to complete the necessary form(s). Create a UPB Service Ticket or call 217-265-6363 for more information.

The Request for Proposals is open for the Call to Action Research Program. Begun in fall 2020, the goal of the program is to enhance exceptional cross-disciplinary research strengths and expand collaborations to build cultures of research and scholarship that creates a more robust and equitable society. The full RFP along with application details can be found on the Call to Action program website.

Uni High's student-led oral history project seeks leads on local female trailblazers. Students are interested to interview women "first" in their fields and/or women active in different "feminist waves" and national women's rights movements. If you, or someone you know, might be a good fit for the project please be in touch. Initial interviews will take place this fall on Zoom.

The Black Chorus Fall Concert, RECLAMATION, celebrates 56 years of uninterrupted contribution to the cultural landscape on the Urbana campus with a concert of sacred music by Black Americans. Highlights include: two premieres, "I will sing" by Quandra Clark and "My Prayer" by Dr. Ollie Watts Davis; and Langston Hughes' poem, "Let America be America Again." go.illinois.edu/RECLAMATIONBlackChorus

The ESL Program offers ESL 593 Academic Presentations Skills for international graduate students, faculty, staff and visiting scholars. This 7-week course includes authentic opportunities to practice explaining research and adapting to various audiences. Classes start Tuesday, Oct. 22. For registration information, visit ESL Advanced Electives Courses.

The Illinois Leadership Center is offering workshops for your student group! We will come to your classroom or student team to lead training and dialogue related to topics such as empathy and servant leadership. See this year's leadership topics here. To request a program, fill out our workshop request form, and someone will respond to you within three business days to give you more information.

The Civic Café is a conversation series by scholars, educators and community advocates to advance pillars of democracy and civic education. Join Lynn Pasquerella, president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), and Will Creely, legal director of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expressions (FIRE), for a discussion of campus expressive activity.

Adobe InDesign is a layout and design software program that allows you to create print and digital media. This workshop is designed for those with little to no experience with InDesign to help you learn the basics of using this document design program. During the workshop, we will create a sample flyer. You will gain experience navigating the features, and there will be time to explore.

We will be learning about basic 3D Printing modeling with TinkerCAD. We will provide a walkthrough and activity with this software. After registering, please create a TinkerCAD account. TinkerCAD is a free browser-based software that we will be using in the introductory 3D design workshop. Choose the “Create a personal account” option for this workshop and follow the registration steps.

This workshop will use practical applications of two AI tools — Microsoft Copilot and Perplexity AI. These tools support your research process, offering intelligent assistance with brainstorming, refining ideas, finding sources and enhancing your writing development. You will learn to use these tools to efficiently gather insights, structure arguments and streamline your research workflow.

This session will cover conceptual design, storytelling techniques and scriptwriting. Our goal is to set a strong foundation to help researchers understand communication in this popular, innovative format. We will have four subsequent sessions that go into more depth, but this first workshop is paramount to getting started!

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is rolling out new heat stress regulations in March 2025. To prepare for this change, Facilities & Services will host a Heat Stress Vendor Fair between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29, in Stores and Receiving conference room 1A. Stop by for information on cooling PPE, heat stress monitors, hydration and more! Registration is encouraged.

Join QCB in person or online to hear Lingyan Shi, UCSD, tell about a platform that equips researchers to quantitatively visualize molecular events, offering tools for early-stage disease detection and drug delivery/resistance assessment as well as fostering a deeper mechanistic understanding of the fundamentals of aging biology and related diseases. Refreshments beginning 1:30 p.m., Beckman 3151.

This workshop will elaborate on the differences searching in Google Scholar and academic databases, demonstrate how to use Google Scholar’s Advanced Search, explain how to connect your library access to GS and cover other sophisticated features GS offers to support your research. We will also discuss some of the privacy concerns related to Google and how you can mediate them.

Help us promote campus sustainability throughout October as we work toward a new Illinois Climate Action Plan in 2025! Activities include two iCAP Input Sessions where students can suggest priorities for iCAP 2025 from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Monday at 4035 CIF. All are invited to the Campus Sustainability Celebration Oct. 23 at the Illini Union! Check our Sustainability Month calendar for details!

If you have an interest in the entrepreneurship ecosystem at Illinois, register now to attend all or part of Founders Week, Oct. 17-18. The free event brings together founders and funders with Illinois faculty, staff and alums to network, learn and build on Illinois' exceptional track record of fostering entrepreneurial success. See the website for a schedule of events and to register.

Dear friends and affiliates, you are invited to our CGS and LAS-Global Studies Fall 2024 Reception! Please mark your calendars and make it a priority to be with us. It will be a wonderful time, and we are looking forward to seeing you there!

Are we witnessing a nationalist turn toward deglobalization or a new moment of reglobalization? Professor Steger provides a timely and transdisciplinary appraisal of globalization at the crossroads. Manfred B. Steger is a professor of sociology at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. He was an academic consultant on globalization for the U.S. State Department and an advisor to a PBS TV series.

Help celebrate the opening of Allerton’s first accessible woodland trail at a Community Coffee in the Wandering Woods from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 22. Park in the Main Parking Lot. Stop by any time and enjoy a drink on Allerton from Moon Bean Coffee and explore the new path. The Park’s power chairs will be available for those with limited accessibility (first come, first serve).

Learn the basics of taking photos at Photography 101 from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, in The Studio and Formal Gardens at Allerton Park. Professional photographer and avid Allerton Park Photography Group member Al Wehrmann will lead students (ages 13+) in a brief seminar, then take to the Formal Gardens to learn the basics of photography! $25 per person (ages 13+). Register here by Oct. 21. 

Celebrate Illinois REDCap, a no-cost browser-based tool for collecting both high risk and non-high risk data used by more than 900 faculty, staff and students at Illinois! Have breakfast, meet other REDCap users across campus and learn how Illinois REDCap is being used to meet a variety of data collection needs across campus in both research and administrative settings. Register by Oct. 15.

NCSA will host the Machine Learning and Big Data workshop presented by the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. This workshop will focus on topics that include big data analytics and machine learning with Spark and deep learning using TensorFlow. Visit the event description for more details.

Sign up your department or unit for our campuswide physical activity challenge. Work units form teams and compete to see which team can average the most physical activity. Tomorrow is the last day to register a team, and team members can sign up until Oct. 10. Contact us at wellbeing@illinois.edu to learn more or to sign up your department/unit!

Research regarding artificial intelligence is expanding but comes with methodological hurdles. This presentation will focus on the use of qualitative interviews and methods to understand people’s interactions with and perceptions toward AI. It will highlight key methodological challenges as well as outline strategies for addressing them. 

Athletics, Facilities & Services and iSEE are teaming up once again for two tailgate recycling events this football season. Tailgaters, do your part by recycling plastic bottles and aluminum cans in containers located in Lot 31 and Grange Grove. Volunteers are needed for the Saturday, Oct. 12, and Saturday, Nov. 16, gamedays. Sign up to participate through the Volunteer Form.

The 8th Annual International Food Security Symposium at Illinois will focus on the global challenges facing wildlife and food security. Day One will focus on the international scene, and Day Two will focus on the domestic scene.

Join Nutrition Educator Rachel Mannen and Family Life Educator Emily Harmon for Wellness Walks! From 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Oct.10, we will meet at Meadowbrook Park (2808 S. Race St., Urbana, IL). SidlineMD will be our special speaker! Wear comfy shoes, bring water and enjoy a stroll. After each walk there will be a giveaway! Register at: go.illinois.edu/Wellness-Walks

The Center for Gender and Sex in Health invites you to their next conversation. The goal is to explore avenues for interdisciplinary research and training collaboration and to ensure scholars learn from each other in order to imagine new, transformative ways of performing research and training. RSVP for the first conversation here by Sept. 9. Event details here or subscribe here.

Join us for the Latine Studies Graduate Student Conference "Reclaiming Insurgency." The conference will feature interdisciplinary graduate research and keynote speakers Joshua Briond and Akua N. Learn more and register here.

Registration is now open for the 2025 Student Success Symposium to be held Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. Join in the ongoing discussion about what our campus is doing and will do to bolster retention and graduation rates, close equity gaps and enhance the Illinois experience for our students.  The deadline for registration is Jan. 30, 2025. Register for the Student Success Symposium online.  

Applications are open for the 4th CUC Fab Lab Holiday Market. This is a great opportunity for new and local artists/makers to showcase their goods. Last year, we had 400+ patrons. In addition to one-of-a-kind gifts, all Fab Lab proceeds directly benefit our Summer Camp Scholarship Fund.

CSBS invites you to a panel discussion on race, gender and identity in the 2024 election. Drawing on diverse perspectives, the panel will explore what the dynamics of identity and their influence on electoral outcomes and discuss how different levels of inequality — spanning institutional structures, social and economic groups and individual identities — interact and shape political engagement.

Join us for a conversation with Emeritus Dean Vikram Amar and Professor Lena Shapiro. Panelists will speak followed by a discussion among audience members. The event will be from 3-4 p.m. followed by a reception with light refreshments from 4-5 p.m. Co-sponsored by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Senate, the Office of the Chancellor and the Office of the Provost. RSVP by Oct. 21.

Join us at Riggs Beer Company next Sunday (Oct. 13) at 2:30 p.m. to hear Erinn Dady discuss Native Plants and the Ecology they support! Hope to see you there! 

Against a backdrop of massive structural shifts in the economic balance of power within the Indian Ocean basin, "Zanzibar Was a Country" explores the crossed history of struggles for citizenship in Oman and Zanzibar after the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution.

University Primary School, the Reggio Emilia-inspired lab school of the College of Education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is hosting an annual fall community open house Tuesday, Oct. 8.  Prospective families, researchers and community members may visit the preschool between 9 a.m. and noon and Kindergarten through 5th grade classrooms from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m.

October Dance 2024 reactivates dance history, honoring masterworks of the past in a contemporary context. The concert features work by José Limón (staged by associate professor Roxane D’Orléans Juste), and Merce Cunningham (staged by associate professor Paige Cunningham Caldarella) as well as a new work by teaching assistant Professor Rachel Rizzuto, and undergraduate senior Tessa Olson. 

Departments are invited to sign up for the Illini Union's Trick-or-Treating event! Units can distribute information, giveaways and candy to students as well as participate in the custom contest. Register your department before Monday, Oct. 28.

Indigenous Peoples’ Day is Monday, Oct. 14. To commemorate this day, the Native American House (NAH) will deliver a series of programs that center on intersectionality. This framework helps us understand several aspects of identity and a diverse set of issues relevant to Indigenous communities. Indigenous Peoples’ Day programming is open to the public.

From 1918 to 1922, as many as 40,000 Jews were killed in the pogroms of the Russian Civil War. The mass violence in Ukraine was part of a global phenomenon of ethnic and racial violence. This book talk examines the Yiddish and Russian literary response to the pogroms and the relief effort, exploring both the poetry of catastrophe and the documentation of catastrophe and care.

UIAS is holding its next Open House from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11, at the Campus Observatory (901 S Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801). We will have several activities available: antique room tours, telescope observations, etc. ANYONE is welcome to come, so tell all your friends and family about it!

Please join the University Archives for the Women in Science Lecture Series from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9, with Dr. Jennifer T. Bernhard, Department Head and Donald Biggar Willett Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering! This is a hybrid event and will take place in the University Archives (146 Main Library) or you can register for the Zoom link.

Boyte is a civic organizer and theorist of the public work framework of citizenship. Ström is co-founder and Director of Education and Training at the Institute for Public Life and Work. Originally from South Africa, her work and orgs have played a significant role in facilitating that country’s democratic transition. Free lunch provided.

Illinois Public Media is excited to present NPR Weekend Edition host and award-winning journalist Scott Simon at 4 p.m. Oct. 13 at the Beckman Institute. At this public event, The 21st Show host Brian Mackey will interview Simon about his storied career in media, his love of Illinois and the upcoming November election. Free parking is available in North Campus Parking Deck.

Critics of the Supreme Court have proposed various reforms including term limits for the justices, a code of ethics, new recusal rules, additional justices, jurisdiction stripping and supermajority voting requirements. On the first day of the Court’s new term, join a panel of law faculty experts to hear whether the Supreme Court needs to be reformed and, if so, how to go about it.

Please join us for a lecture by J. David Velleman, the Miller Research Professor in Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. In “A Method for Metaethics,” Velleman considers the question: “What turns a fact into a reason for acting?” — but he doesn’t answer the question; rather, he proposes a method for finding the answer. 

Aerospace Engineering will host a special session featuring AE Alum and Astronaut Michael Hopkins (BS 91). Mike will discuss his time in space and what life is like on orbit. Select students may have the opportunity to ask a question. All faculty, staff and students are welcome to attend. Registration required. 

Please join us at noon Tuesday, Oct. 15, in 5602 Beckman to learn an overview of key technologies that constitute the Stellaris platform, multiphoton microscopy and tunable spectral detection with our DIVE systems and recent advances in our STED systems with Ken Calderone. Lunch will be provided to those who register.  Please register by Thursday, Oct. 10.

The Student Affairs Wellbeing Committee invites faculty, staff and students to Illini Wellness Week, a weeklong initiative to enhance your wellbeing through our wellness-focused programs and services. Join us at the Wellness Fair 4-6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9, at the ARC Wellbeing Lounge as we kickoff the week. We also welcome the campus community to check out all other Illini Wellness Week events.

Join Pierre Hornych of Université Gustave Eiffel as he presents via Zoom at the Fall 2024 Kent Seminar Series Thursday, October 10, from 2-3 p.m. (CT).  (CT).   Food and soft drinks will be provided beginning at 1:30 p.m. in the ICT Classroom. 

Are you struggling to keep track of all your sources? Looking for an easier way to cite as you write? Mendeley is a free citation manager that helps you organize your citations, store and annotate your files and insert formatted citations into papers. You will leave this hands-on workshop with the ability to set up and use your very own Mendeley library!

Interested in free and openly licensed textbooks (OER) for your students? Come and learn where to find them, how to create them and how and when to apply for a grant of up to $10,000 from the Library to make OER.

NVivo is a desktop software for analyzing qualitative data, including text, image and video, and survey data. With NVivo, you can code data by hand or automatically using keyword searches. We’ll discuss how to create an NVivo project, add data, code text data and view the results of coding in multiple configurations. We’ll also talk through methods of collaboration using NVivo. 

Mediaspace (mediaspace.illinois.edu) is a YouTube-like service that allows us to post and share videos. You can use it to promote your research, for teaching or outreach. Zoom meetings you record to the cloud go directly to Kaltura! You can publish your media broadly or selectively. You can upload videos you've already made, or record directly online, edit your videos and add captions, too.  

We will dive into AI's multimodal capabilities, discovering how it can generate ideas through conversation, craft vivid imagery and enhance accessibility. We will cover tools and techniques for integrating AI into stages of the storytelling process — from brainstorming and character development to world-building and narrative design. We’ll address copyright considerations for AI-generated outputs.

Learn how to use NCSA's Delta supercomputer. In this virtual workshop, attendees will learn about Delta's advanced architecture designed to support a wide range of scientific domains, particularly those that benefit from GPU acceleration such as machine learning. Hands-on exercises will teach how to access Delta, manage the user environment and run jobs and software. Registration required.

Vincent Larivière, professor and UNESCO Chair on Open Science at the Université de Montréal, will present a talk on "Are self-citations a normal feature of knowledge accumulation?" More information on this talk and the iSchool’s CIRSS “Studying Science Scientifically: State of the Art and Prospects for the Science of Science” Speaker Series is available here.

The next Online Student Service Watercooler Group meeting is at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9, via Zoom. This month, we will have panelists joining us to discuss how they celebrate and engage online students at the U. of I. 

Join us during Voter Education Week with Aaron Ammons, Champaign County Clerk, who will present on the history and future of elections both locally and at the national level. This is a free webinar and open to everyone. Continuing education credit is available for LCSW/LSW and LCPC/LPC. Register: https://go.illinois.edu/SSW_CEU_Election2024

The Education Justice Project's Policy and Research Team is hosting a research group meeting from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 14, via Zoom. Join us to hear from Mark Zablocki about his current research, special education services in juvenile and adult correctional facilities: Failed policies and procedures in the carceral state. All are welcome! You do not need to be an EJP member to attend.

The DRSP is hosting a Dissertation Writing and Research Roundtable for early-stage doctoral students. Miguel Avalos (Sociology), Lauren Harris (Chemistry), Nicholas Kowalski (Physics) and Jon Petty (Urban and Regional Planning) will share about strategies surrounding research, writing and time management. This is an opportunity for a multidisciplinary exchange of writing practices.

Have you ever felt down or bored and weren’t sure how to “put yourself out of it?” Learn how nature and socializing can improve your health and well-being. We will focus on practical, research-based strategies for enjoying nature nearby and socializing. Presenters: Leslie Camarillo and Damien Cavanaugh

This webinar will explore how geosynthetics can contribute to sustainability efforts in North America, Latin America and the Caribbean to achieve the UN’s sustainability goals. We will present both practical and theoretical insights, showcasing how geosynthetics can effectively reduce CO2 emissions and generate carbon credits in these regions. 1.0 PDH

"Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue" is an interactive course that teaches skills on how to effectively turn disagreement into dialogue. This course is appropriate for a range of roles, including those who provide customer service, support students or supervise others. More information about this online training opportunity can be found in the Crucial Conversations nomination form.

Are you ready to consider your course learning objectives in a new light? This workshop presents a framework for creating design challenges that address course objectives and offer students authentic design experiences. This framework can also be used to explore potential project topics and create human-centered design prompts. All instructional backgrounds are welcome!

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 5-17 years old who speak English as their first language. The study lasts approximately one hour. Children are paid $15 per hour. Parking is free. Daytime, evenings and weekends are available. Email child-SRL@illinois.edu for info!

Is your research policy-relevant, or are you interested in developing policy research and communications skills and building relationships? We want to learn about your work to help inform future programming and collaboration building – please fill out this campus policy research survey! Please complete the survey by Oct. 31. 

Looking for adults (ages 18-25) who are native speakers of American English and have normal hearing. Participants will listen and respond to speech samples and receive a hearing test during a single one- to 1.5-hour visit. Compensation of $15 per hour will be provided at completion. To learn more, fill out our screener or email anex-lab@illinois.edu.

The Alcohol Research Lab is looking for social drinkers to participate in our study. Participation involves attending one 6- to 9-hour laboratory session and completing cognitive, social and communicative tasks while EEG brain responses are recorded. A referral of at least one same-gender friend is required at the time of sign up. Up to $100 in compensation. 

Help make the next Alcohol Fitbit! The Alcohol Research Lab is looking for participants for 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 $400 in compensation for participation

Looking for adults ages 60-75 to participate in a study into prolonged sitting and how adults think. The study's aim is to test the feasibility of interrupting sitting with short bouts of high-intensity exercise in older adults and measure brain and cognitive functions before and after sitting. Compensation for participation is $280. If you are interested, please click here.

We are seeking participants ages 50 and older for a two-hour study ($35 compensation) to explore how people learn to use virtual reality and their training support preferences. Participants should have prior hands-on VR experience, be fluent in English and be willing to visit the U. of I. campus. For more info, please contact us at vrsupport@illinois.edu or 217-300-5445, or click here to sign up!