Research IT Master Calendar
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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This program provides new employees at the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois an overview of IT services that are critical to success on campus. Attendees can register for one, two, or more of the scheduled sessions. Offered at no cost to faculty/staff/students of the University of Illinois. New and current employees are invited to attend.
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Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Coffee Connections will take place every other Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.
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Alexandra Weisberg, PhD Department of Botany and Plant Pathology; Oregon State University "The role of mobile genetic elements in ecological specialization in a legume-rhizobia metacommunity"
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Learn to craft a compelling fellowship proposal.
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Do you have a question about IGB research for Director Gene Robinson? Ask him during our live Q&A event, for Staff/Student/Postdoc only.
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
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Microsoft Teams is a communications platform available through MS Office 365. During this two-hour live online workshop, we will focus on the Teams experience from a team member’s perspective. Topics will include learning how to navigate Teams ; communicating in Teams (including chat); setting and managing notifications of Team activity. Link sent if registered by 9 am.
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In MCOT we will explore the following topics: • Designing Your Online Course • Developing Your Learning Community • Adapting Best Teaching Practices to Your Online Course • Motivating Your Students to Excel MCOT opens on Wednesday March 6, 2024, and our synchronous meetings occur at 11:30am - 1:00pm on the following four Wednesdays - March 20 & 27 and April 3 & 10.
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Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!
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This two-hour session will introduce you to Access, Microsoft's relational database application. Attendees will take a tour of the objects in an Access database, including tables, queries, forms, and reports.
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In this 2-hour course, we will spend time adjusting images in Photoshop, using Adjustment Layers, and explore several kinds of image adjustments. We will also explore image editing in a non-destructive manner.
Thursday, March 21, 2024
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Developing skills and knowledge that can be used to succeed at real-world tasks is a strong source of motivation for many students. Authentic assessments conceptually mimic these tasks and are a more valid means of measuring learning objectives compared to conventional means of assessment.Join us as we investigate using authentic assessment effectively in our courses.
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Associate Member, Monell Chemical Senses Center
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Join other members of the Beckman community for coffee and cookies in the Beckman Atrium. The Cookie Collab is scheduled for 3 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month.
Friday, March 22, 2024
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Come to this workshop to begin the process of identifying your teaching philosophy, deciding which parts of it belong in your statement, and avoiding common mistakes.
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Calling all faculty and teaching assistants who are currently using or are interested in using alternative methods for grading (i.e. Labor based grading, Ungrading) in their courses. Join faculty members Kary Zarate (Education) and Clara Bosak-Schroeder (Classics) for an informal discussion about their assessment practices.
Sunday, March 24, 2024
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Swami Tyagananda will be presenting a public lecture at Spurlock, “Learning from Rāmāyana.”
Monday, March 25, 2024
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Microsoft Teams is a communications platform available through MS Office 365. During this two-hour online workshop, we will focus on the Teams experience from a team member’s perspective. Topics include learning how to navigate Teams ; communicating with others in Teams (including chat); setting and managing notifications of Team activity. Registration closes 1 hour prior
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Join us in a hybrid session where we will discuss best practices for setting up a Teams online meeting as well as joining the meeting. We'll cover the capabilities of meetings in Teams in addition to requirements and planning considerations for Teams. This session is aimed for beginner users of Teams. Pre-registration required.
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
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Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Coffee Connections will take place every other Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.
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Have you been asked to put together a PowerPoint presentation, but you're not sure how to start? Participate in this short hybrid course and learn the basics, including how to create slides and put content in them. We will also learn how to format and custom design the slides.
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In this 2-hour instructor led workshop we will explore the Visio interface and create graphics. Visio comes with diagram-specific shapes and tools that enable you to quickly create professional-looking flowcharts, organization charts, timelines, & more. We will learn how to create some basic shapes, and connect, distribute, and align them. Pre-registration required
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Karen Sandell Sfanos, PhD Department of Pathology; John Hopkins University School of Medicine "The microbiome as a mediator of prostate carcinogenesis"
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In this 2-hour online course you will learn how to add, divide, multiply, and subtract by entering formulas into Excel worksheets. Other topics will include an exploration of just a few of the hundreds of functions available in Excel. We will learn how to find a specific function, as well as how to get help while entering arguments.
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
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In this 2-hour instructor led InDesign workshop, participants will learn how to create and open InDesign documents, navigate the user interface, modify a document, import graphics, and manipulate basic text and text frames and create a postcard in the process. No prior knowledge of InDesign is required. Pre-registration is required.
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"3D Data Analysis and Segmentation Tools" Kingsley Boateng Assistant Director of Bioscience Research & Microscopy
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Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!
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In this 2-hour InDesign workshop, participants will learn the basics of adding interactivity to your Adobe InDesign documents, including adding links, buttons, animation, and sharing your interactive document. Basic knowledge of InDesign is required. Pre-registration required. (Participants can choose between online or in-person after registration)
Thursday, March 28, 2024
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In this 2-hour instructor-led workshop, participants will learn how to use Adobe Express (Adobe's online design tool) to create social media posts, customize photos, create a flyer and use the new Generative AI tools. No prior knowledge of Adobe Express is required. Pre-registration required.
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Undergraduates of any major are invited to this informal lunch talk with Pulitzer Prize-winner David Maraniss (New York Times bestselling author and associate editor at The Washington Post). Lunch provided!
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Join us for an evening with Pulitzer Prize-winner David Maraniss as he delivers his keynote talk, “Lombardi, Clemente, and Thorpe: Illuminating American History Through Sports.” A book signing will follow. This talk is part of the symposium Sporting Publics: History, Sports, and American Culture, which is taking place March 28–29, 2024.
Friday, March 29, 2024
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Runstedtler’s presentation draws on her 2023 book Black Ball, exploring how African American basketball players challenged the status quo on the court and in US society. Part of the symposium Sporting Publics: History, Sports, and American Culture, which is taking place March 28–29, 2024.
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Professor Louis Moore will present on his book I Fight for a Living: Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood, 1880-1915 and Daniel Nasset (Editor-in-Chief, University of Illinois Press) will share the editor’s perspective on working with Moore to turn his idea into a book that speaks to sporting publics.
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Frank Guridy (History, Columbia University) will be presenting, with Augustus Wood (Labor and Employment Relations) commenting. Guridy will preview part of his forthcoming book The Stadium, which examines the intersections of activism, sport stadiums, and political change. Part of the symposium Sporting Publics: History, Sports, and American Culture...
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Shakeia Taylor is a Chicago-based award-winning writer and storyteller, whose work focuses on the intersection of sports, history, and culture.
Monday, April 1, 2024
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Keynote speaker Tim Pauketat, State Archaeologist and Director of Illinois State Archaeological Survey (ISAS); Remarks from Susan Martinis, Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation and Praveen Kumar, Executive Director of the Prairie Research Institute. Light refreshments will be provided. RSVP is required by March 22.
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Teaching presence strongly impacts the way students build their knowledge in your course. In this session, you will learn how to strategically apply your teaching presence to the critical roles you have as a Teaching Assistant and gain insights from outstanding faculty here at Illinois.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
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Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Coffee Connections will take place every other Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.
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This 1 & 1/2 hour in person session will begin by logging in to Teams training accounts. Next we will explore the Teams call interface, including contacts, contact groups, and Voicemail. We will take a look at call settings and then spend the rest of the time practicing making and receiving calls, transferring calls, placing calls on hold, and merging calls.
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"Of mice, men, birds and snakes: An evolutionary perspective on meiotic recombination in vertebrates" Molly Przeworski, PhD Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Systems Biology; Columbia University
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In this two-hour live Photoshop session, we will cover working with selections in preparation to edit images. Participants can select online or in-person.
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
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Learn how to create and edit OneNote notebooks, search and export notes. We will explore the use and management of sections and pages including section groups and subpages. We will enter data into OneNote from a variety of sources, from existing documents to webpages. We will discuss merits of embedding spreadsheets or linking.
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Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!
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In this two-hour live Photoshop session, we will cover working with layers and learn to edit in a non-destructive way. Participants can choose in-person or online.
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Join us for an evening with Caroline Bressey (Geography, University College London), Kennetta Hammond Perry (Black Studies, Northwestern University), and Rochelle Sennet (Music and Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, College of Fine and Applied Arts) as they share their research on Black Britons in a variety of media.
Thursday, April 4, 2024
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Learn about the Fulbright U.S. Student Grant Program.
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Come find out more about the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology! Learn about the barrier-busting interdisciplinary research facility and community of innovation. First Thursday of the month from 10-10:30 a.m.
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Professor, Dept. Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Friday, April 5, 2024
Monday, April 8, 2024
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
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Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Coffee Connections will take place every other Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.
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Holger Schmidt, PhD Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Narinder Singh Kapany Chair of Optoelectronics, Baskin School of Engineering; University of California Santa Cruz "Integrated optofluidic devices for single molecule analysis"
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Creating, storing, and updating organizational charts can be a time-consuming task. Using software that is designed for visualizing information aids the process. Visio can even generate a diagram that adds the shapes and connectors for you from data that is stored in an Excel workbook. In this workshop attendees will create simple org charts, and pull from excel.
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
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In this 2-hour instructor led short course you will learn how to specific features and tips on managing email more efficiently from conversation view to rules to pre-sort messages and moving folders around.
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Join Beckman Interim Director Cathy Murphy in the Beckman center atrium for the annual presentation of two Beckman awards: the Vision and Spirit Award, and the Staff Spirit and Dedication Award. Cupcakes will follow in celebration of the April 10 anniversary of Arnold Beckman's birth.
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"A solid-liquid superposition model for interfacial solvation structures" Qian Ai, Graduate Research Assistant Materials Science & Engineering
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Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!
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In this 2-hour workshop, participants will learn the basics of using the drawing tools in Adobe Illustrator CC, including how to use the Pencil and Curvature tools, how to edit paths. Then we will look at layers, including how to create, edit, and organize content. We will also learn the basics of transforming and editing artwork in Illustrator. Pre-registration required.
Thursday, April 11, 2024
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This 2-hour Outlook Calendar workshop, participants will learn to schedule & edit appointments; work with calendar labels and tasks displayed on the Calendar. We will schedule with the Scheduling Assistant, practice scheduling a conference room, and discuss scheduling Online Meetings, and discuss calendar permissions.
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Professor, Eric A. Ortlund, Ph.D.
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Join us in an instructor-led session using OneNote where we will discuss the structure of notebooks and how OneNote notebooks work within MS Teams. Prereq: understand Teams and MS OneNote. Pre-registration required; no walk-ins please.
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In this workshop, we'll investigate a model of motivation that can help you identify the kinds of things that might motivate your students. Once you are familiar with the model, you'll zoom in to your individual situation and identify more specific things you can do to get and keep your students motivated.
Friday, April 12, 2024
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Learn about the Fulbright U.S. Student Grant Program.
Monday, April 15, 2024
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
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Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Coffee Connections will take place every other Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.
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Peg McCarthy, PhD James & Carolyn Frenkil Endowed Dean's Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmacology; University of Maryland School of Medicine "Establishing Sex Differences in the Brain at the Intersection of the Nervous, Endocrine and Immune Systems"
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Learn to craft a competitive Statement of Grant Purpose for the Fulbright US Student Grant Program.
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
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Digital literacy is the ability to apply IT and digital technology to find, understand, evaluate, communicate, and create information. Digital literacy skills are just as important as self-regulated learning behaviors. In this workshop you will develop strategies to promote digital literacy among your students for their learning in your course and beyond.
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Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!
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Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!
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In this 2-hour instructor led InDesign workshop, participants will learn how to create and open InDesign documents, navigate the user interface, modify a document, import graphics, and manipulate basic text and text frames and create a postcard in the process. No prior knowledge of InDesign is required. Pre-registration is required.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
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We have many options for scheduling online meetings these days. We will use Outlook for a central place to keep track of several kinds of online meetings and to make sure we have reminders. We will look at recommendations for scheduling with Zoom and Teams. We will go over helpful tips for each platform, including scheduling as a delegate. Prereq: Outlook Calendar workshop
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Associate Professor, Physiology, Molecular, and Cellular Biology
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In this 2-hour instructor-led workshop, participants will learn how to use Adobe Express (Adobe's online design tool) to create social media posts, customize photos, create a flyer and use the new Generative AI tools. No prior knowledge of Adobe Express is required. Pre-registration required.
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In this two-hour Illustrator session, we will go over recommended resources and tutorials, then participants will be introduced to the user interface while creating a vector graphic logo.
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Learn to craft a competitive Personal Statement for the Fulbright US Student Grant Program.
Friday, April 19, 2024
Monday, April 22, 2024
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Keynote speaker Stephen Boppart, Interim Director of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute (IHSI), Professor and Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering; Remarks from Susan Martinis, Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation and Praveen Kumar, Executive Director of the Prairie Research Institute. Light refreshments will be provided. RSVP required by April 15.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
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Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Coffee Connections will take place every other Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.
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In this 2-hour InDesign workshop, participants will learn how to create a two-page InDesign brochure from scratch, import graphics, and manipulate basic text and text frames. No prior knowledge of InDesign is required. Offered in-person or online. Pre-registration required
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During this two-hour session, we will go over the basics of the Photoshop interface and some resources on how to continue learning features. Instructor will work through a beginner tutorial, editing a photo and share resources. Q & A to follow.
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NCSA will showcase the research conducted by students at NCSA and UIUC. This conference also presents the opportunity to network with NCSA researchers, faculty affiliates and industry partners.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
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Undergraduates of any major are invited to this informal lunch talk with Joy Harjo, (23rd United States Poet Laureate; member of the Muscogee [Creek] Nation). Advanced registration required.
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"Introducing Spatial Transcriptomics to Core Facilities: A Custom Built MERFISH Microscope " Duncan Nall, Research Scientist Core Facilities
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Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!
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In this 2-hour instructor led workshop we will explore the Visio interface and create graphics. Visio comes with diagram-specific shapes and tools that enable you to quickly create professional-looking flowcharts, organization charts, timelines, & more. We will learn how to create some basic shapes, and connect, distribute, and align them. Pre-registration required
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Learn to craft a compelling fellowship proposal.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
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In this 2-hour course, we will spend time adjusting images in Photoshop, using Adjustment Layers, and explore several kinds of image adjustments. We will also explore image editing in a non-destructive manner.
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Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Friday, April 26, 2024
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Learn to craft competitive statements for the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant program.
Monday, April 29, 2024
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
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Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Coffee Connections will take place every other Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.
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In this 2-hour InDesign workshop, participants will learn the basics of adding interactivity to your Adobe InDesign documents, including adding links, buttons, animation, and sharing your interactive document. Basic knowledge of InDesign is required. Pre-registration required. (Participants can choose between online or in-person after registration)