The University of Illinois System has announced a new call for proposals for the Joint Research and Innovation Seed Grant program in collaboration with National Taiwan University. This program aims to facilitate research and development cooperation and delivery of talent, innovations and resources from these universities to the marketplace. Proposals should focus on the areas of health and medicine, data science and artificial intelligence, sustainability, quantum and semiconductor, and social sciences. Also announced is the Travel Grants program. Proposals for both programs are due on Dec. 8.

Attend the Illini Union Open House from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29! Come see all the Union offers departments, faculty and staff such as hotel accommodations, event space, meeting rooms, catering options, printing and much more. See the new technology available in meeting rooms, talk to and sample University Catering and the Union restaurants, and tour the hotel rooms. This is a great opportunity to discover what is available to you right on campus. RSVP encouraged but not required.

The Health Care Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship Specialization on Coursera brings together six courses exploring design thinking, data analytics, entrepreneurship and health care innovation. Four are live now, with two launching Dec. 14. Enroll for free with Coursera for Illinois.

It's the middle of the semester and basketball season is right around the corner, but your research may be stuck on the bench. Are you encountering challenges with data? Looking for research computing solutions? What could you use help with? Illinois Computes is here to offer research technology support to all U. of I. researchers, helping you advance your innovative and groundbreaking work. Are you hitting a logistical roadblock? Struggling for resources? Not sure where to begin? Illinois Computes can help with that. Explore the resources available to you through Illinois Computes.

Are you interested in supporting our effort to prepare first-generation and low-income students for graduate level education? The Jeffries Center and the TRIO Ronald E. McNair Scholars Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program are looking for faculty mentors. McNair faculty mentors serve as research mentors, provide advice and support on graduate school preparation and programs, provide professional development and have a long-term impact on the future of the academy. Do you want to learn more? Please email the TRIO McNair Program at triomcnair@illinois.edu.

Gies College of Business is now sourcing projects for the spring 2026 Action Learning program. These projects pair student teams with organizations to tackle challenges such as identifying customer growth opportunities, optimizing financial processes, developing go-to-market strategies or exploring emerging technologies. This is a unique opportunity for organizations across industries to benefit from data-driven insights while providing Illinois students with invaluable experiential learning. Project ideas can be submitted here.

The Counseling Center offers a robust collection of self-help brochures for students. Topics range from academic success to navigating the adjustment to college, to managing relationships and embracing identities. The brochures are free to campus units. For a complete list of brochures and information on ordering them, please visit the link in the headline.

Are you working on a Data Management Plan for a grant proposal? Or maybe your funder calls it a Data Management and Sharing Plan. Either way, the Research Data Service can help with guidance, templates and feedback. Check out our website for helpful resources or to submit your draft plan for a quick and confidential review. All plans are welcome.

Pamela Riney-Kehrberg is a distinguished professor of history at Iowa State University, where she has taught since 2000. A fellow of the Agricultural History Society, she has received the James C. Giesen Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Gladys Baker Award for Lifetime Achievement. She is the author or editor of seven books, including "When a Dream Dies," which won the 2022 Benjamin F. Schambaugh Prize and the 2023 Dorothy Hubbard Schwieder Award.

Many international scholars hope to secure full-time employment in the United States. In this presentation, you will learn about the H-1B petition process for full-time hires and options for permanent residence in the U.S. The speaker will be Thomas Arkell, an attorney practicing immigration and employment law. This workshop is intended for anyone interested in better understanding U.S. immigration policy as it pertains to advanced degree holders.

The Costumes and Customs Lecture Series presents Viking Age Clothing and Cloth Cultures with professor Ulla Mannering and senior researcher Charlotte Rimstad of the National Museum of Denmark. As Danish textile archaeologists, they will reconstruct what people wore and how it was made using evidence from graves, bogs, iconography and experimental reconstructions. Mannering and Rimstad are currently engaged in the project "Textile Colors of the Viking Age," which examines how colors in textiles, jewelry and beads were produced, perceived and used in the Nordic Late Iron Age society.

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!

This event is FREE. "Black Box Diaries" traces Itō’s courageous investigation of her own sexual assault, an improbable attempt to prosecute a high-profile offender that became a landmark case in Japan. Itô reveals the black boxes and blind spots in Japan’s judicial and social systems. This film premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, was nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA and received a Peabody Award.

The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is presenting an OpenACC GPU programming workshop Nov. 3. OpenACC is the accepted standard using compiler directives to allow quick development of GPU-capable codes using standard languages and compilers. It has successfully accelerated real applications within very short development periods. This workshop assumes knowledge of either C or Fortran programming. 

The Indigenous people of Brazil are an essential part of the country's multicultural society. In this reading group, we invite those interested in reading and discussing the ways Indigenous communities record their customs and traditions, the environmental injustices they face with the construction of the Belo Monte Dam and essays by Ailton Krenak, the first Indigenous writer accepted to the Brazilian Academy of Letters. Meetings are from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 23 and Oct. 21, and 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 11.

Celebrate autumn with a nighttime stroll on campus through the Red Oak Rain Garden during Illuminating Art in Nature from 4:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30. This free, environmentally friendly event will feature a student art installation, caricature drawings, a craft table, apple cider and an interactive educational fair. Jack-o'-lantern lighting and judging will begin at sundown.

Join us for a lecture in our postdoctoral colloquium series featuring Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Associate Saraí Blanco Martinez. Her talk, "Radical Healing Processes of Latinx Immigrant-Origin Young People," will share about her most recent youth participatory action research collaboration, which used photovoice and plática methodologies.

Join Giorgio Rizzoni of Ohio State University as he presents via Zoom at the fall 2025 Kent Seminar Series from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23. Presentations this semester focus on topics related to electrification in mobility. Rizzoni's lecture will explore the future of automotive propulsion and sustainable fuels. Food and soft drinks will be provided beginning at 1:30 p.m. in the Illinois Center for Transportation Classroom.

Japan House is pleased to host a series of Japanese indigo dyeing (aizome) workshops featuring Fukushima artist Hirohisa Saito as part of the Kogei: Traditional Arts and Crafts project. Guests will learn about the basics of indigo dyeing and katagami stencils. All supplies are provided to create a Japanese fan (uchiwa). Dates are from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 19, and at noon and 1:15 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25. Registration required.

Japan House is pleased to host a series of Japanese calligraphy (shodo) workshops, featuring Fukushima artist Seiran Chiba as part of the Kogei: Traditional Arts and Crafts project. Guests will learn about the basics of Japanese calligraphy and practice writing with her guidance before creating their own masterpiece. All supplies are provided. There are two sessions Saturday, Oct. 25: 2:30 p.m. and 3:45 p.m. Registration required.

Japan House is pleased to host a washi (Japanese paper) workshop, featuring Fukushima artist Shinya Terasawa as part of the Kogei: Traditional Arts and Crafts project. Guests will learn about the washi craft process and history, then they can learn to make a postcard from pulp to take home! Reservations are required; no walk-ins or observers. All supplies are provided.

Join CDA, CROPPS and NCSA for a seminar featuring William C. Barley (U. of I. communication professor) on how acknowledging the often unseen labor of collaboration can strengthen interdisciplinary science teams. Drawing from field studies, Barley reveals how communication, coordination and organizational design shape scientific success. Free to attend – register here.

NCSA will host William K. M. Lai on Wednesday, Oct. 29, as part of the NCSA Colloquium Series. Lai is a professor in molecular biology, genetics and computational biology at Cornell University. He will present "Poisoning of Networks with Adversarial Particle Swarm Optimization" and focus on Adversarial Particle Swarm Optimization, a new method for creating and studying “poisoned” data — data that can trick or weaken artificial intelligence systems.

NCSA, in collaboration with the Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology Center, invites you to the Quantum User Group kick-off event at NCSA. The QUG was formed to raise awareness of activities of interest in quantum computing, in all its forms, to the campus community and create a forum for information sharing about emerging quantum computing capabilities. There will be an overview of the group, lightning talks from Santiago Núñez-Corrales and Wolfgang Pfaff and time for Q&A. More information available here.

Join us for Saturday Physics for Everyone this fall! Each week, enjoy demos and refreshments starting at 9:45 a.m. followed by engaging public lectures starting at 10:15 a.m. Paul Kwiat kicks off the series with “Spooky Action and Beyond: The Power and Promise of Quantum Entanglement.” Upcoming talks include “Extreme Matter: Physics at a Trillion Degrees,” “Bringing Cells to Life in Minecraft” and “Public Quantum Networks: The Internet of the Future.”

Learn about how to improve your health by letting go of highly processed foods at Basics of Plant-Based Eating from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5, in The Studio. Instructor Karla Freeze will share the story of how she regained her health by adding more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts and seeds to her diet. $25 per person. Register here by Oct. 29.

Learn about tarot cards and readings at Intro to Tarot Cards from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1, in the Allerton Mansion. Instructor Charlie Rainbow Wolf will guide students through the history of tarot, what it does and doesn’t do and how to detangle myth from method when learning to read the cards. Tarot cards are included in registration. $60 per person. Register here by Oct. 25.

Continue your journey into the world of weaving at Beginning Weaving II from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 1-2, in the Greenhouse Auditorium at Allerton Park. This will be a continuation of Weaving I but student select their own project.  $250 per person. Register here by Oct. 25. 

Learn the basic mechanics of using a spinning wheel to make your own yarn at Learn to Spin Yarn from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29, in The Studio at Allerton Park.  After a brief introduction from instructor Stephanie Block, students will have time for hands-on spinning practice and the opportunity to spin alpaca fiber into yarn. $130 per person. Register here by Oct. 22.

Join Brock Craft, teaching professor in human-centered design and engineering at the University of Washington, for a thought-provoking talk on Human-Centered Engineering. Please RSVP for the Zoom link!

University Laboratory High School will host prospective family informational meetings this November through January. Please join us to learn more about our values, curriculum, programs and our application process for the 2026-27 school year. Meetings will be held through Zoom and in person at various locations in Champaign-Urbana. Please visit our website to sign up for a meeting: https://uni.illinois.edu/admissions. 

Do you know a transfer student? They are invited to Career Development for Transfer Students: Navigating Your Personal Career Path at 5 p.m. Oct. 21, a workshop to help them explore their career path, develop job search strategies and craft their personal story to highlight their strengths and skills. Registration on Handshake is encouraged but not required.

The Graduate and Professional School Fair was a big success! We are keeping the momentum going with the Graduate School-Ready Series to guide students from planning strategies to submitting their personal statement. Attend one, two or all three sessions: 5 p.m. Oct. 20, Preparing for Graduate School; 2 p.m. Oct. 23, Inside Grad School: Student Panel; 5 p.m. Oct. 28, Crafting a Compelling Personal Statement. For more details and Zoom links, visit Handshake.

Please share this with your students! Meet YOUR Imposter Monster: Understanding and Managing Imposter Syndrome, from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22, SDRP Building, MPR 2025 AB. AJ Lauer, leadership coach and author of Imposter Monster, leads a fun, creative workshop exploring imposter syndrome, ways to manage self-doubt and an art activity to face their “Imposter Monster.” Snacks and supplies provided. Learn more and register on Handshake. 

The production details of the Catholicon have long been a hotly debated topic in incunabula research. Scheide Librarian Emeritus (Princeton) Paul Needham will present his findings that it was printed not from movable type, but instead by means of two-line stereotypes – a technology previously thought to have only been invented several hundred years later. The RBML’s recently acquired copy of the 1469 edition will be on display. This event is free and open to the public, and refreshments will be served.

Join Elaina Rhoades, digital manager from Octagon, as she shares her journey in Esports and gaming, from breaking into the industry to leading global campaigns and community programs. She’ll discuss the evolution of brand partnerships, talent collaboration and fan engagement, plus where Esports is headed and the skills students need to succeed. Octagon is a leading global agency in sports, entertainment and culture, a group of creative thinkers and energetic doers harnessing that playmaker spirit to generate fame that endures. Pizza provided!

Join the Counseling Center, International Student and Scholar Services and University Library for a panel discussion from 1 to 2 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22, in the Main Library Room 106, to explore the challenges of an international student, emotionally, culturally and academically. Learn about available campus resources, ask questions about immigration and visa concerns, and how to care for students' mental health while building connections far from home. This event is open to all eligible persons regardless of race, color or national origin. Reasonable accommodations are available upon request.

Join John Doe, co-founder of the legendary band X, for a conversation about the band’s appearance at the inaugural Farm Aid concert in Champaign in 1985. Our conversation with John Doe will be a chance to reflect on the inaugural Farm Aid concert — an effort to raise funds and consciousness in support of farmers facing a profound economic crisis — from the perspective of a performer with a lifetime of experience making music and making history.

Join faculty and health and kinesiology students to have your resting heart rate and resting blood pressure measured. Students will provide education on the physical activity and exercise guidelines. Drop in and check it out!

Join us to Celebrate, Explore and Engage with CREA and ITEL (Campus-Recognized Centers in the College of Education). The Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment (CREA) is an interdisciplinary, international community dedicated to advancing research, evaluation and assessment that foregrounds culture and context. The Center for Research and Innovation in Technology-Enhanced Learning (ITEL) is a campus hub for designing and investigating the impact of new technologies on learning and education in authentic contexts in K-12, higher education classrooms and beyond. 

The Icko Iben Jr. Distinguished Lecture Series brings world-renowned astronomers to campus for engaging talks designed for a general audience. Join us at 7 p.m. Wednesday., Oct. 29, in the Lincoln Hall Theater or online for Cosmic Gold, as Princeton professor Eliot Quataert explores how gravitational waves, first predicted by Einstein, are helping reveal the secrets of black holes, neutron stars and even the origins of elements like gold and platinum. Come early for a chance at a free gift!

Join us in person or via Zoom for the 2025 Roger Ebert Lecture, given by Yiman Wang, professor of film and digital media at UC Santa Cruz. Wang’s lecture will present from her recent book, "To Be an Actress," on early Hollywood Chinese-American performer Anna May Wong and her work in cinema, theater, radio and American television. Note: As part of the Roger Ebert Lecture, be sure to watch the Ebert Lecture Screening of "Picadilly" (1929) held the night before the lecture, at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23, at Spurlock Museum. Both events are free and open to the public. 

As part of the annual Roger Ebert Lecture and Screening, join us for the screening of "Piccadilly" (1929), E.A. Dupont’s film starring Chinese-American pioneer Anna May Wong. Part crime drama and part thriller, "Piccadilly" uses its technical advances to tell the story of a dancer framed for murder in the London nightclub scene. Then join us at 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24, in Spurlock Museum or via Zoom for the Roger Ebert Lecture, presented by Yiman Wang, professor of film and digital media at UC Santa Cruz. Both events are free and open to the public.

Fredrik Jonsson (history, University of Chicago) proposes a fundamentally new interpretation of Britain's fossil energy economy between the first and second industrial revolutions 1750-1914. Rather than a single breakthrough in steam powered factory production, this model stresses a multi-sectoral ratchet of interlocking forces including urban demand, deep mining, infrastructure, iron production and global food production.

Attendees will become familiar with the differences between a dissertation and first book manuscript and will further learn about identifying points of revision, creating a revision plan/timeline, approaching editors/presses, writing a book proposal and the publishing process at a glance.

Looking for a new way to conduct your research? Tired of getting zero results in your database searches? This workshop will break down how the professionals identify resources, and search for articles, books and other scholarly works. We’ll cover chasing citations, creating optimal keyword searches, using built-in database functions to improve your searches and other strategies to make you a more efficient researcher.

Join us for a one-hour webinar that introduces the computational resources and support available to Illinois researchers on campus and beyond! We will provide an overview of the resources and support available through the Illinois Computes program, other on-campus services, as well as the national NSF-supported ACCESS program.

In 2021, Illinois enacted the SAFE-T Act, a sweeping criminal justice reform law. The 2025 Cline Symposium will examine its impact on policing, including implementation challenges, unintended consequences and responses from law enforcement and advocacy groups. Featured speakers include: Larry D. Boone (Urbana police chief), Aisha N. Davis (senior policy counsel, ACLU IL), Ahmadou Dramé (director, Illinois Justice Project) and Craig Futterman (clinical professor of law, University of Chicago).

Join our Quick Start Workshop this week on Tuesday, Oct. 21, to learn how to make your PDF documents accessible! This workshop will explore key accessibility tips to making an accessible PDF from a Word document, using Acrobat Pro to identify the basic architecture and much more. Additional workshops on document and course accessibility, including Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and PDF, are scheduled throughout the fall semester. Sign up and expand your accessibility skills!

This workshop will give you hands-on experience accelerating Python codes with NVIDIA GPUs. We will utilize code samples in two main categories to introduce you to Python GPU-accelerated computing. First, we will explore drop-in replacements for SciPy and NumPy codes through the CuPy library. Then we will cover NVIDIA RAPIDS, which provides GPU acceleration for end-to-end data science workloads. Finally, we will cover Warp for differentiable simulation codes. By the end of the workshop, you will have the skills to start accelerating your Python codes with NVIDIA GPUs!

The iSchool's Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship will host Rishi Bommasani, senior research scholar at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, presenting "Technocratic AI Policy" on Wednesday, Oct. 22, as part of its The AI Disruption speaker series.  More information is at this link.

The ODSR Research Collaboration Community webinar is a venue for multi-disciplinary conversations to identify specific collaboration opportunities related to data science and artificial intelligence. Open to all at the Urbana-Champaign campus as well as other U. of I. campuses. On Oct. 31, the Collaboration Community will explore the NSF Human Networks and Data Science funding program and look for opportunities to collaborate on upcoming proposals. Guest: prior HNDS awardee Caterina Gratton, department of psychology/Beckman Institute.

Exposed and covered geomembrane liner systems are subjected to wind uplift, hydrostatic uplift, gas generation and erosive/external forces that need to be assessed for long-term resistance to site and environmental conditions but that are not often addressed during the design and construction phase. This webinar will provide design and installation methods for various ballasting and protection options that will help ensure long-term performance of the geomembrane liner system installation.1.0 PDH. 

The next Online Student Service Watercooler Group meeting is at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21, via Zoom. This month’s discussion will focus on new initiatives in Gies Online Programs — Peer Tutoring and the Success Lab. We’ll explore their development process, the benefits they offer and how they foster community and a greater sense of belonging among students.

The U.S. electrical grid is rapidly evolving as affordable renewable energy reshapes the energy mix. However, generation and demand are often misaligned, straining transmission networks. Catie Hausman will share research on the costs of these spatial constraints and how removing them could lower generation costs by billions annually — though with uneven effects across generators. She is a professor at the University of Michigan specializing in energy and environmental economics.

One critical component that makes research impactful is the effective presentation of data. In this workshop, you will learn some effective strategies for clear and effective data presentation in the context of journal articles, research posters and PowerPoint presentations. By the end of this workshop, you will learn conventions for writing with figures, methods for analyzing your figure and table design and how to apply these lessons to a variety of contexts. Register by Oct. 21 with your Illinois email.

Protein does more than build muscle — it promotes fullness, supports immune health and prevents age-related muscle loss across all ages. This interactive session clarifies protein needs, identifies the best sources and shows how to incorporate them into your diet without excess. You'll gain practical tools for personal wellness or to support clients and patients. Presenter: Nikita Chigullapally. 

Want to improve your website’s performance and show up more in search results? Maggie Evenson (StratCom) will break down five essential SEO building blocks: how search engines work, core SEO elements, on-page optimization, technical must-haves and link building. Designed for beginners, this session offers a clear roadmap to boost your site’s visibility and drive more organic traffic.

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 at least two transdermal bracelets (on your non-dominant hand) and filling out surveys for two weeks. Up to $400 in compensation for participation.

Researchers at the U. of I. are seeking individuals between the ages of 18-70 who do NOT have misophonia (a disorder in which certain sounds trigger strong emotional or physical responses) for a cross-national research study comparing people with vs. without misophonia. Participants will be paid a total of $100. For more information, please contact misophonia@illinois.edu.

Seeking participants (21-64 year olds) who had a sleeve gastrectomy 1-5 years ago or have not had any bariatric surgeries (control group). Participants must not smoke and drink alcohol at least once a month. There will be blood draws, body composition assessments, alcohol challenge tests and questionnaires. Compensation will be provided (up to $850 upon completion of four visits and free parking). Please fill out our online pre-screening form if you're interested, using the following link: https://illinois.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7R2VUEoOuh2cTXw or contact ornella2@illinois.edu. 

The Champaign-Urbana Population Study is to help us learn more about how the brain works using advanced 7T MRI technology. Participation involves two visits at Carle Hospital: the first includes questionnaires, cognitive assessments and setting up activity monitors, and the second includes an MRI scan. Each visit takes about two hours, and you’ll be compensated $20 per hour. You may also receive a de-identified, artistic image of your brain (not for diagnostic use). For more information, contact us at CUPS@carle.com. Please fill our interest form and we'll be in touch! Interest Form.

The main purpose of this study is to estimate 24-hour movement behaviors (example: physical activity, screen time, sedentary time, sleep, etc.) in kindergarten children. Objectives of the study are to track movement behaviors in schoolchildren from kindergarten to 12th grade, associate movement behaviors with health, development and educational outcomes and assess parents' interaction and stimulation regarding movement behavior opportunities with their children. There is an online survey for parents and caregivers to fill out for their child.

The Nutrition and Exercise Performance Research Group is looking for participants to partake in a 2-day study to establish the utility of the indicator amino acid oxidation method in adults. Participation in this study involves 2-day habituation lead in with all meals provided, muscle biopsies and blood, breath and urine sampling during two all-day trials. Upon completion, you will receive $150 and information about your body composition and caloric needs. Contact our lab (NEPRESEARCH@illinois.edu) for more information!