The UI System and the I-MMAS Program, in collaboration with the INCMNSZ-Mexico, are committed to enhancing public health outcomes by funding innovative projects that address critical challenges and advancing research that leads to improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment strategies. A proposal can have a budget request of no more than $40,000 dollars jointly. For more information, click here.

The 2024-2025 Campus Profile is available at http://www.dmi.illinois.edu/cp/. The Campus Profile is a compilation of indicators for departments and administrative units at Illinois. Ten years of data are displayed for most items. Totals are included at the school, college, vice-chancellor and university levels. If you have questions or need assistance, contact DMI at dmi@illinois.edu or 333-3551.

Giving Tuesday will be on Dec. 3, and this year’s campaign will focus on the Food Assistance and Well-Being Program in the fight against food insecurity on campus. The shopping-style pantry provides free food and necessities to all students. Support ensures no student must choose between education and a meal. Learn more about this campaign at go.illinois.edu/givingtuesday2024!

It’s that time of year when illnesses are on the rise. Practicing good habits can help prevent the spread of illness. These include: cover your mouth and nose when coughing or sneezing; wash hands with soap and water; use alcohol-based hand sanitizer; avoid touching eyes, nose and mouth; stay home if sick; wear a mask if needed and regularly clean and disinfect surfaces. Lastly, get your flu shot!

The Beckman Institute is accepting applications for its research seed grant program. At least one faculty member on the application must be a full- or part-time member of Beckman. Selected projects should lead to externally funded research proposals and form building blocks of novel research programs at Beckman. Proposals may request up to $150,000 for two years. Deadline is Feb. 14. Learn more.

Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute's Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design team works with internal and external researchers to design, conduct, analyze and publish health-related research, providing up to 10 hours of grant proposal work free of charge for internal research teams. Fee-for-service rates are available for additional support. Learn more.

Join QCB Dec. 5 and 6 for mini-symposia featuring some of the leading global experts in cell biology: Wolfgang Baumeister (Technical University Munich), Margaret Gardel (University of Chicago), Gerhard Hummer (Max Planck Institute), Shana Kelley (president, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago), Victor Muñoz (University of California Merced), Jonas Ries (Max Perutz Labs, Vienna BioCenter). Details here.

Please join the University Archives for the Women in Science Lecture Series from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 5, with Dr. Sepideh Sadaghiani, a professor of Psychology. This is a hybrid event and will take place in the University Archives (146 Main Library) and over Zoom. RSVP here.

Start the holiday season with a magical evening at Allerton’s Holiday [Showcase + GLOW] Opening Night from 5 to 9 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 6. Take a stroll through the magical, illuminated gardens of Holiday GLOW, shop from local vendors at the Holiday Showcase and enjoy special musical entertainment, food, and drinks! $10 per person. Register here. The Showcase continues Dec. 7-8. Get more info here.

Vendors have been announced for the Holiday Showcase at Allerton Park on Dec. 6-8. The Showcase features the best local artisans in the area, all of whom will have items for sale. There will be food (Greenhouse Café, food trucks), music, the official launch of this year’s Holiday GLOW and more! Get a complete list of vendors here. Showcase tickets are available here.

Come see the Allerton Mansion shine in all of its holiday splendor at the Holiday Mansion Tours at 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. Monday, Dec. 9, 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 12, and 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 17. Enjoy the twinkle from more than 40 trees and festive décor throughout the entire first floor and some of the decorated bedrooms upstairs. $15 per person (5 and under free*). Register here.

The Center for Gender and Sex in Health invites you to its last fall 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. Please RSVP here by Dec. 2. Event details here or subscribe here.

Meet Veterinary Medicine's Ambassador Animals and learn about the Wildlife Medical Clinic! Stop by our second floor in Funk ACES Library and say hi to Hazel the Eastern Box Turtle, Petunia the Virginia opossum, Maize the corn snake and Ruby the Red-Tailed Hawk! Visit our online calendar to learn more about this and other events.

NCSA is hosting a hands-on Introduction to MPI Programming workshop presented by the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. Attendees will leave with a working knowledge of how to write scalable codes using MPI – the standard programming tool of scalable parallel computing. View the workshop's agenda and registration instructions on the PSC Monthly workshop webpage.

Dr. Omaris Zamora will discuss her fabulated story of La Cigüapa, a Dominican folktale figure similar to Mexico's La Llorona, as an exercise for thinking about her character and the historical context in which she is initially imagined. She offers a transnational examination of this figure against the backdrop of colonialism, mining and neoliberal capitalism from Hispaniola to Washington Heights. 

Join the Physics Department for this fall's Saturday Physics for Everyone on Saturday, Dec. 7. This in-person lecture series concludes with Professor Jaki Noronha-Hostler's "Reverse Alchemy: Turning Gold into the Most Perfect Liquid." Snacks will be served at 10 a.m. and the lecture begins at 10:15 a.m. This event is free and open to everyone. We hope to see you there!

This family-friendly, free event is produced by teaching faculty and students and demonstrates chemistry principles in a fun and approachable way, featuring various demonstrations that produce the "magic" of chemistry.

University Housing pastry chefs Mel Domanski and Megan Bugg will lead this interactive cooking demonstration featuring fun, fancy, classic desserts, including crêpe cakes. Watch, learn and sample the desserts from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3, in ISR’s Table 1867. Guests can enjoy a meal in University Housing dining halls by using Illini Cash or credit card.

CASCaDe (Collective for Arts-Science, Creativity and Discovery, etc.) participates in the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology with performances of Quantum Voyages! This production will travel to Anaheim, Calif., for the American Physical Society Meeting in March 2025 and will return home to performances in the new ADA-compliant Colwell Playhouse in April 2025!

Join us for an electrifying concert uniting award-winning flamenco virtuoso and George A. Miller Visiting Artist Adam Del Monte with the Latin American Ensemble, featuring Del Monte's original compositions reimagined through a vibrant fusion of flamenco and Latin American rhythms.

Recruit students for spring, summer and fall 2025 semesters! Register for the Illinois Part-Time Job Fair, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Jan. 29, at the Illini Union. The Fall Part-Time Job Fair attracted over 2,300 students, so this is the perfect event to find top talent eager to gain experience. Registration is free, but space is limited. Sign up here to secure your spot!

Join faculty and staff who support research for Research Development Day! We'll gather for a day of networking fun, a panel on working with foundations and a keynote from Tony Boccanfuso of the University Industry Demonstration Project on forging and sustaining collaborations. Register by Dec. 4.

Dr. A. Susan Jurow is Professor of Learning Sciences & Human Development at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. Jurow’s scholarship centers on ameliorating systems that marginalize communities. Her work involves research and design with historically non-dominant youth in school and community settings, progressive social activists, and technology designers.  

Join us for informal talks by recent CAS Associates and Fellows. At 11 a.m., Mattia Gazzola (mechanical science and engineering) discusses whether computing systems can be built out of living neurons. At noon, Ned O'Gorman (communication) offers 10 new theses on liberalism.

Chuck Todd, NBC News’ chief political analyst, will be on campus for a conversation about the presidential election results from 5 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3. Attendees may join in the Gregory Hall auditorium (Room 112) or register to join via Zoom. The conversation will be led by Colleen King, director of the Frank Center and clinical assistant professor of journalism. Free and open to the public.

The Illinois Mexican and Mexican-American Students (I-MMÁS) Initiative is hosting an online symposium from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 3, 2024, to enhance collaborations between the U of I System and Mexican institutions for innovative research and educational opportunities, seeking to improve the well being of aging populations and advance shared goals for quality of life. Register now!

The Education Justice Project’s Policy and Research Team is hosting a research group meeting from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Dec. 9, via Zoom. Join us to hear Sarah Nixon discuss her research, "Horses In The Prison Yard: An Assessment Of Equine Facilitated Activities Within Carceral Settings." All are welcome!

Join Deana McDonagh (FAA and Beckman) as she explores the "pedagogy of (dis)comfort" as an educational tool that supports the student in developing a deeper empathic understanding of others. Empathic modeling and mood boards offer an extension to existing teaching tools.

The Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) will host Sarah Bratt, a professor at the University of Arizona School of Information, presenting “Uncovering the Invisible Engines of Data-Intensive Science: Science of Science Studies of Datasets, Software, and Full-Text” as part of its Studying Science Scientifically speaker series. Details available here.

Matthew C. Ehrlich, author of "The Krebiozen Hoax: How a Mysterious Cancer Drug Shook Organized Medicine," joins Ryan A. Ross of the University of Illinois Alumni Association to discuss the book. The conversation will be followed by a Q&A.

The Writers Workshop is here to help your students prep for finals! Join us on Zoom from noon to 1 p.m. on Dec. 4 to learn tips for Acing In-Class Essay Exams and from 4 to 5 p.m. on Dec. 5 to improve Proofreading and Editing Strategies. Register using your Illinois email address by the day before the session to receive the Zoom link via email on the morning of the event.

Understand and master the U.S. credit system on Dec. 5, 2024. Join us on Zoom for Mastering the Consumer Credit Game to learn how to build, manage and protect your credit. Registration required.

We are seeking recreational athletes ages 18-55 years who have been previously diagnosed with or tested positive for COVID-19. Your participation in this study will consist of one session lasting about 30 minutes. In exchange for your participation, you will receive a $20 gift card. To get more information and participate, please contact Natasha Mazumdar at nmazumd2@illinois.edu.

The NHB Lab invites kids ages 8-11 to participate in a research study about the effects of plant-based foods on metabolic health, cognitive abilities and body composition. Participants will visit the lab six times over three months for testing. All foods will be provided by research staff. Compensation is $500 plus an extra $200 for two optional visits. Sign up for a quick screening call today!

The TEAM Project is looking for mothers and their 6th-8th grade daughters. We want to understand teen girls' experiences with other kids and moms’ involvement. Families can earn up to $70 by participating online over a 3-month period. To sign up and learn more, go to https://www.devmindsonline.org/. Create a profile for yourself and your daughter. Look for “The TEAM (Teens and Mothers) Project."

Do you have occasional slips in memory? If you or anyone you know is 60+ years old, takes prescribed medication for high blood pressure, has mild problems with memory and uses smartphones, then you are eligible for this study that supports medication taking using smartphones. Compensation provided for participation. For more information, please contact us at 217-244-7383 or medmanage@illinois.edu.