IAS Library Suggests!
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
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Looking to enhance your online course design? Join us for an engaging session where you'll discover how the Quality Matters (QM) rubric and resources can help you transform your online and hybrid courses. QM provides a rich set of tools and resources to guide you through improving online course quality and optimizing students' learning experiences.
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
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Topics to be covered include information about the Beinecke, Churchill, Fulbright, Gates Cambridge, Goldwater, Knight-Hennessy, Luce Scholars, Marshall, Mitchell, Rhodes, Schwarzman, Truman, and Udall programs and how you may prepare for these opportunities.
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Мы будем говорить только по-русски! Conversation in Russian, beginners welcome!
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
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Topics to be covered include information about the Beinecke, Churchill, Fulbright, Gates Cambridge, Goldwater, Knight-Hennessy, Luce Scholars, Marshall, Mitchell, Rhodes, Schwarzman, Truman, and Udall programs and how you may prepare for these opportunities.
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Chado, or the Way of Tea, is one of the most ancient and revered arts of Japan and is at the very heart of Japan House. It is a ceremonial way of preparing and serving matcha (powdered green tea) that benefits both the host and the guest through mutual respect, non-verbal communication, and a calmness, or sense of peace, away from everyday life.
Thursday, April 3, 2025
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"Reflect on what you're learning" is a hopeful but difficult prompt for students and instructors. In this workshop, two scholars and instructors from the clinical-community psychology department will introduce a simple framework for engaging in reflection assignments and broader reflexive practice, playfully called “SpORE" (Specific Observation, Reaction, Expansion).
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Topics to be covered include information about the Beinecke, Churchill, Fulbright, Gates Cambridge, Goldwater, Knight-Hennessy, Luce Scholars, Marshall, Mitchell, Rhodes, Schwarzman, Truman, and Udall programs and how you may prepare for these opportunities.
Friday, April 4, 2025
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Topics to be covered include information about the Beinecke, Churchill, Fulbright, Gates Cambridge, Goldwater, Knight-Hennessy, Luce Scholars, Marshall, Mitchell, Rhodes, Schwarzman, Truman, and Udall programs and how you may prepare for these opportunities.
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Learn about the Fulbright U.S. Student Grant Program.
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Friday Forum + Conversation Cafe To Thy Happy Children of the Future: Divestment as Progress, Students for Environmental Concerns, in conversation with Jim Hinterlong April 4, 2025 12:00 pm -1:00 pm (CST) University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign
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Topics to be covered include information about the Beinecke, Churchill, Fulbright, Gates Cambridge, Goldwater, Knight-Hennessy, Luce Scholars, Marshall, Mitchell, Rhodes, Schwarzman, Truman, and Udall programs and how you may prepare for these opportunities.
Sunday, April 6, 2025
Monday, April 7, 2025
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
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What Now: Focus on Women and Gender in the New Era April 7 | 5:15 pm - 6:45 pm | Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center, 1212 W. Nevada St., Urbana, IL
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
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Learn the accessibility requirements for making your Canvas courses accessible. This hands-on workshop will cover using the Canvas editor to create navigable pages, writing effective alt text description for images, charts, and graphs, ensuring readable color contrast, creating accessible tables and links, and using Canvas accessibility tools to fix common issues.
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
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Chado, or the Way of Tea, is one of the most ancient and revered arts of Japan and is at the very heart of Japan House. It is a ceremonial way of preparing and serving matcha (powdered green tea) that benefits both the host and the guest through mutual respect, non-verbal communication, and a calmness, or sense of peace, away from everyday life.
Thursday, April 10, 2025
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Dr. Winful, a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology and a participant in the DRIVE Illinois Distinguished Postdoctoral Program, will discuss her research on the biological mechanisms linking stress to health, with a focus on inflammation. April 10 | 12 pm - 1 pm (CTS) | Main Library Room 146, or over zoom
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Learn about the Fulbright U.S. Student Grant Program.
Friday, April 11, 2025
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Friday Forum + Conversation Cafe The Art of Recreating Transnational Solidarities Against Global Apartheids, Woman Life Freedom Collective and Humane Urbanisms Project April 11, 2025 12:00 pm -1:00 pm (CST) University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Sunday, April 13, 2025
Monday, April 14, 2025
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
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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 15, 2025
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
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Get up to speed on using the Pope Tech Canvas Accessibility Guide to make Canvas pages more accessible for everyone! In this hands-on workshop, we’ll start with an overview of the Pope Tech Canvas Accessibility Guide, how it functions, what the various errors, alerts, structural elements, and features mean, and how to fix these issues on a Canvas page.
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Мы будем говорить только по-русски! Conversation in Russian, all levels welcome!
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
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Chado, or the Way of Tea, is one of the most ancient and revered arts of Japan and is at the very heart of Japan House. It is a ceremonial way of preparing and serving matcha (powdered green tea) that benefits both the host and the guest through mutual respect, non-verbal communication, and a calmness, or sense of peace, away from everyday life.
Thursday, April 17, 2025
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Learn the accessibility requirements for making your Moodle courses accessible. This hands-on workshop covers creating accessible navigation, headings, tables, lists, and hyperlinks, how to write alt text for images, generate and edit video captions, as well as the advantages (and limitations) of using Moodle’s accessibility checker and screen reader helper.
Friday, April 18, 2025
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Friday Forum + Conversation Cafe Stories From Her Work as a Tribal Attorney, Land Defender and Founder of the Giniw Collective by Tara Houska, Tribal Attorney and Founder of the Giniw Collective April 18, 2025 12:00 pm -1:00 pm (CST) University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign
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Learn to craft competitive statements for Fulbright US Student Study/Research Awards.
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Sunday, April 20, 2025
Monday, April 21, 2025
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
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This hands-on workshop will help you integrate Audio Description (AD) into your workflow, making visual content accessible from the start rather than as a post-production fix. You'll learn to replace vague cues like “As you can see here” with rich, meaningful descriptions that enhance accessibility and reduce technical hurdles.
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Мы будем говорить только по-русски! Conversation in Russian, beginners welcome!
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Thursday, April 24, 2025
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The last Thursday of each month between 5-9pm see how many strikes you can throw in the monthly STRIKE OFF! Top 3 placers will win prizes with the winner receiving a FREE commemorative t-shirt. Register at the Rec Room the day of the event. $5/entry (maximum of 3 entries per person). Dates: February 27; March 27; April 24; May 8 (Reading Day Strike Off)
Friday, April 25, 2025
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Learn to craft competitive statements for the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant program.
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WGGP Spring Reception. Please join us as we honor or GRID Graduates and WGGP Award Recipients. Friday, April 25 | 4:00-5:00 pm | YMCA Latzer Hall. 1001 S. Wright Street, Champaign. Remarks at 4:20pm.
Monday, April 28, 2025
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
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Documents must be proactively accessible for all students. This hands-on workshop will cover what to look for and several tools to help you find and fix issues. You’ll learn how to scan multiple document types for accessibility issues and remediate them.
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
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Мы будем говорить только по-русски! Conversation in Russian, all levels welcome!
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
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Chado, or the Way of Tea, is one of the most ancient and revered arts of Japan and is at the very heart of Japan House. It is a ceremonial way of preparing and serving matcha (powdered green tea) that benefits both the host and the guest through mutual respect, non-verbal communication, and a calmness, or sense of peace, away from everyday life.