Student Affairs & Campus Events
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Latino Family Visit Day is a bilingual, daylong program open to all students and families. Participants will connect with campus resources, meet university staff, and engage in activities and meaningful dialogue about academics, financial aid, campus life, the transition to college, and supporting student success.
Friday, October 16, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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CU Pride Parade Poster Making
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This session provides insight and strategies for getting the most out of Scopus; the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature including scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings. This session will highlight how to find literature about a particular topic, tracking citations, author information, and evaluating sources.
Saturday, October 17, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Sunday, October 18, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Monday, October 19, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Looking for a new way to conduct your research? Tired of getting zero results in your database searches? This workshop will break down how to identify resources, and search for articles, books, and other scholarly works. We’ll cover chasing citations, creating optimal keyword searches, and more.
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Free flu vaccines for Illinois students and faculty/staff, provided by McKinley Health Center, no appointment necessary! Students need to bring their iCard, and faculty/staff need to bring their state insurance card.
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Free flu vaccines for Illinois students and faculty/staff, provided by McKinley Health Center, no appointment necessary! Students need to bring their iCard, and faculty/staff need to bring their state insurance card.
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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MAXQDA is a robust software for analyzing qualitative data, including text, media, and survey data. The software is free for all University of Illinois users via a license provided by Illinois Computes. This workshop assumes basic knowledge of MAXQDA including importing data files, creating codes, and applying codes to text data.
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In this introductory workshop, attendees will learn the basics of Procreate, including touch screen gestures, layers, brush tools, and other basic tool set features. They will be guided through an exercise, as well as have the opportunity for free form time and to ask questions.
Thursday, October 22, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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MAXQDA is a robust software for analyzing qualitative data, including text, media, and survey data. The software is free for all University of Illinois users via a license provided by Illinois Computes. This workshop assumes basic knowledge of MAXQDA including importing data files, creating codes, and applying codes to text data.
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Are you overwhelmed by organizing your sources? Looking for an easier way to cite as you write? 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!
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Lunch on Us is La Casa Cultural Latina’s signature educational and community-building series, held on select Thursdays throughout the academic year and open to all University of Illinois students. Over a free lunch, students participate in meaningful conversations, interactive workshops, panel discussions, and presentations led by campus and community partners.
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Community Wellness Lounge
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Friday, October 23, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Saturday, October 24, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Sunday, October 25, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Monday, October 26, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Google Scholar is an incredibly popular and useful tool for research with several features that scholars may not be familiar with. This workshop will elaborate on the difference between searching in Google Scholar and academic databases, demonstrate how to use Google Scholar’s Advanced Search, and more.
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Wednesday, October 28, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Are you overwhelmed by organizing your sources? Looking for an easier way to cite as you write? 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!
Thursday, October 29, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Lunch on Us is La Casa Cultural Latina’s signature educational and community-building series, held on select Thursdays throughout the academic year and open to all University of Illinois students. Over a free lunch, students participate in meaningful conversations, interactive workshops, panel discussions, and presentations led by campus and community partners.
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Community Wellness Lounge
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Join Dra. Gabriela Corona Valencia from the Department of Latina/Latino Studies for a discussion on the tradition of Dia de Muertos.
Friday, October 30, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Saturday, October 31, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Sunday, November 1, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Acompáñenos a una celebración de vida
Monday, November 2, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, the Illini Union Board, Native American House (NAH), and American Indian Association of Illinois, welcome everyone to enjoy a variety of musical genres performed by an ensemble of Native performers. In addition to tabling at this event, the NAH will have food for attendees. Food is first come, first served.
Tuesday, November 3, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Academia remains shaped by colonialism in how it views knowledge and who it invites to share it. In this presentation, Evan Shannon (Dena'ina Athabascan, Sugpiaq) examines what it means to study and work within a field built without Indigenous scholars in mind, considering how we can begin to indigenize academic spaces long organized around separatism and exclusion.
Wednesday, November 4, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Thursday, November 5, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Lunch on Us is La Casa Cultural Latina’s signature educational and community-building series, held on select Thursdays throughout the academic year and open to all University of Illinois students. Over a free lunch, students participate in meaningful conversations, interactive workshops, panel discussions, and presentations led by campus and community partners.
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Community Wellness Lounge
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Join us for an afternoon of poetry, featuring readings and opportunities to listen, reflect, and connect through the power of verse. All are welcome to share in this celebration of poetry and the spoken word.
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Celebrate Native American Heritage Month with University Housing’s Dining Services and experience a meal at PAR featuring flavors and foods inspired by Indigenous culinary traditions.
Friday, November 6, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Saturday, November 7, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Sunday, November 8, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Latino Family Visit Day is a bilingual, daylong program open to all students and families. Participants will connect with campus resources, meet university staff, and engage in activities and meaningful dialogue about academics, financial aid, campus life, the transition to college, and supporting student success.
Monday, November 9, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Tuesday, November 10, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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The Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address (Ohén:ton Karihwatéhkwen), or “The Words That Come Before All Else,” expresses gratitude and reciprocity as ongoing, cyclical practices. This Dinner on Us program creates space for dialogue on how gratitude, relational accountability, and respect for the diversity of life shape Indigenous ways of knowing and being.
Wednesday, November 11, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Thursday, November 12, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Lunch on Us is La Casa Cultural Latina’s signature educational and community-building series, held on select Thursdays throughout the academic year and open to all University of Illinois students. Over a free lunch, students participate in meaningful conversations, interactive workshops, panel discussions, and presentations led by campus and community partners.
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Mary Caruso Dailey (PhD Chemistry, 2010), Lead Product Development Specialist at 3M will discuss her research on adhesives for electronics bonding and experiences as a graduate student in Chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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Community Wellness Lounge
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Friday, November 13, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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This presentation explores how Tribal Relations Administrators bridge Tribal Nations and higher education institutions. Grounded in Indigenous methodologies, it examines reciprocity, accountability, and resistance to settler colonial practices, offering guidance for policies that center Indigenous knowledge and support Indigenous futurity. Lunch will be provided at noon.
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Dr. Tiffani Kelly will share culturally grounded practices from the University of Oklahoma’s CS-INCLUDES scholarship program, which supports Indigenous Computer Science students through graduation. She will highlight program resources, structured support, and insights to inform efforts to increase Native and Indigenous representation in Computer Science and STEM.
Saturday, November 14, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Sunday, November 15, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Established in 2011, Rock Your Mocs is an annual and global social media event. The Native American House encourages you to break out your moccasins for a worldwide celebration of Indigenous cultures!
Monday, November 16, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Blue corn holds deep cultural and ceremonial significance for the Diné, including in the Kinaaldá, a coming-of-age ceremony honoring a Diné girl’s transition into womanhood, and traditional Diné weddings. During this cooking demonstration, Chefs Justice Janowski and Patrick Lyke will show participants how this meaningful ingredient can be used to make blue corn cookies.
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Stay connected all semester long with Conexiones, a welcoming space for dialogue, relationship-building, and community connection. Through intentional programs focused on holistic well-being, student engagement, and professional development, Conexiones centers the Latine community and strengthens students’ sense of belonging.
Tuesday, November 17, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Join Dr. Worl via Zoom as she shares insights from decades of collaboration with Indigenous communities in Alaska and the Arctic. Drawing on Tlingit culture, subsistence lifeways, and industrial development, she will explore how Indigenous knowledge sustains Native cultures, communities, and relationships with the land.
Wednesday, November 18, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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In this intermediate workshop, students who are already comfortable using basic app features will learn how to use representational strategies such as line weight, tone, and shading. Students will use the perspective and guide tools, and learn to create custom brushes.
Thursday, November 19, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Lunch on Us is La Casa Cultural Latina’s signature educational and community-building series, held on select Thursdays throughout the academic year and open to all University of Illinois students. Over a free lunch, students participate in meaningful conversations, interactive workshops, panel discussions, and presentations led by campus and community partners.
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Community Wellness Lounge
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Celebrate Native American Heritage Month with University Housing’s Dining Services and experience a meal at LAR and Ike featuring flavors and foods inspired by Indigenous culinary traditions.
Friday, November 20, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Saturday, November 21, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Sunday, November 22, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Monday, November 23, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Tuesday, November 24, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Wednesday, November 25, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Thursday, November 26, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Community Wellness Lounge
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Friday, November 27, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Saturday, November 28, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Sunday, November 29, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Monday, November 30, 2026
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Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨
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Participants will learn about AISES programs, membership, scholarships, conferences, and pathways for becoming involved in an Indigenous STEM community rooted in relationships, knowledge, and collective success.
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Graduate and Undergraduate Indigenous scholars are invited to meet with Dr. Johnny Poolaw to learn how AISES can support your academic, professional, and personal journey in STEM.
