Research Technology Master Calendar
Saturday, October 3, 2026
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Join the Landuyt Center for Entrepreneurship this Spring 2027 as a Teaching Assistant supporting the Cozad New Venture Challenge and TE 598: Accelerating Deep Tech Enterprises.

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Tours happen every week on Saturday! Drop in for a tour given by our student gallery guides! Topics vary weekly. Free admission and all ages welcome. No reservation required. Meet at the Information Desk.

Sunday, October 4, 2026
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Join the Landuyt Center for Entrepreneurship this Spring 2027 as a Teaching Assistant supporting the Cozad New Venture Challenge and TE 598: Accelerating Deep Tech Enterprises.

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Experience technology innovation first-hand. At the Silicon Valley Entrepreneurship Workshop (SVEW), you'll interact with corporate leaders, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurial alumni in various stages of a startup life cycle that share lessons learned about entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership. Apply by October 1!

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In this facilitated workshop, participates are guided in creating a self-expressive zine. Zines will be photocopied and added to the Museum’s Unfinished Revolutions zine. The originals can be taken home. All workshop materials are provided. Open to all ages.

Monday, October 5, 2026
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Join the Landuyt Center for Entrepreneurship this Spring 2027 as a Teaching Assistant supporting the Cozad New Venture Challenge and TE 598: Accelerating Deep Tech Enterprises.

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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

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Join us for a talk in the Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, Jr. Lecture Series with Jennifer Nájera, a professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Riverside. Her talk examines the intersections of immigration, higher education, and activism through a case study of undocumented student activists in southern California.

Tuesday, October 6, 2026
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Join the Landuyt Center for Entrepreneurship this Spring 2027 as a Teaching Assistant supporting the Cozad New Venture Challenge and TE 598: Accelerating Deep Tech Enterprises.

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New Beckman community members and those across campus are invited to join this monthly tour of the Beckman Institute. It meets in Beckman's east atrium.

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ATLAS Application Development offers many web-based applications to assist with your business or academic needs (FormBuilder, Gradebook, Exam Attendance, Event Attendance – just to name a few). Have questions about how to get started? Already using an app and want help getting the most out of your experience? Come visit our office hours, and we’d be happy to chat!

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REDCap Fall Office Hours
RecurringREDCap users can schedule 15-30 minutes for discussions of general REDCap matters or items related to a specific REDCap project. Sign up for remote office hours with a REDCap Application Specialist.

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This panel brings together scholars and experts to discuss key issues surrounding Brazil's electoral process. Participants will explore the political landscape, major campaign themes, and the broader implications of the election for Brazilian society and democracy.

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Paul Plummer, PhD Dean, College of Veterinary Medicine; University of Tennessee “One Health Perspectives of Antimicrobial Resistance”

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Join Jaclyn Schurman, program officer at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, and other faculty members for a workshop in pursuing training grants. Please register by Monday, Sept. 26.

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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

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Speaker: Kaz Zhou (UIUC) Title: Proof of the Erdős–Sós conjecture

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This hands-on workshop covers what makes digital math accessible for all learners, including major accessible math formats, accessible math tools, structuring workflows to deliver accessible math, and how digital math interacts with platforms like Canvas, Jupyter Notebook, MS Office documents, and webpages. See full description for free software requirements.

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Explore advanced Illinois REDCap features, including building and editing projects with a Data Dictionary and collecting data through repeatable instruments and defined longitudinal events. A REDCap account is recommended but not required. Prior attendance at “Introduction to REDCap” or a working knowledge of REDCap is recommended.

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Learn more about immigration options for advanced degree holders

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Please join the Unit for Criticism for a Modern Critical Theory lecture by Maryam Kashani (Gender & Women's Studies, UIUC) on Visual Theory.

Wednesday, October 7, 2026
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Join the Landuyt Center for Entrepreneurship this Spring 2027 as a Teaching Assistant supporting the Cozad New Venture Challenge and TE 598: Accelerating Deep Tech Enterprises.

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Get up to speed quickly on making your PowerPoint presentations accessible for everyone while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll begin with a brief overview of common accessibility challenges in PowerPoint and then dive straight into practical solutions.

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Diane Kelly, the Louis Round Wilson Distinguished Professor in the School of Data and Information Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will present "From Finding Information to Feeding the Machine: A Brief History of Interfaces for Online Information Search Systems." A reception will follow the lecture in room 126.

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Diane Kelly, the Louis Round Wilson Distinguished Professor in the School of Data and Information Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will present "From Finding Information to Feeding the Machine: A Brief History of Interfaces for Online Information Search Systems." A reception will follow the lecture in room 126.

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Join us on Wednesday, October 7 from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. at EnterpriseWorks for the annual Flu Shot Clinic.

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Join us for the Reproductive Justice Symposium: a space for conversation between leading scholars of reproduction and the campus community.

Thursday, October 8, 2026
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Join the Landuyt Center for Entrepreneurship this Spring 2027 as a Teaching Assistant supporting the Cozad New Venture Challenge and TE 598: Accelerating Deep Tech Enterprises.

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Please join us for presentations by recent CAS Fellows. At 11am, Nicholas Jackson (Chemistry) discusses Designing Polymers in the AI Era and at noon, Stefan Vogler (Sociology) presents Police Consciousness and the Potential for Reform.

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CSGGE Lunch Series, "Gender Equity in an Inequitable Era" will host Shaimaa Khanam, Graduate Student in the Department of Communication. Her talk, "Audiences interpretations of gender problems based on Netflix show, Adolescence”, will take place on October 8th at 12pm in person at 306 Coble Hall and virtually. Lunch provided for in-person attendees.

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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

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“Staying with the Trouble of Preservation: The Ambivalent Politics of Deletion in Digital Societies.” Presented by Nanna Bonde Thylstrup (Art and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen).

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Join us for a reading by poet Philip Metres! Philip Metres (he/him) grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, the grandchild of Lebanese refugees and migrants and the descendent of Irish famine survivors. Metres has been called “one of the essential poets of our time,” whose work is “beautiful, powerful, magnetically original.”

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You’ll learn how patents can protect inventions, how trademarks safeguard your company and brand, and how intellectual property can become an important asset as a venture grows.

Friday, October 9, 2026
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Join the Landuyt Center for Entrepreneurship this Spring 2027 as a Teaching Assistant supporting the Cozad New Venture Challenge and TE 598: Accelerating Deep Tech Enterprises.

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Join the Data + AI User Group on Friday, October 9 from noon to 1 p.m. for their monthly meetup.

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Join us for a hybrid brown bag at the iSchool. Special guest, Becky Calzada, a librarian featured in the film, will be present. Light refreshments will be provided.

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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

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This is a panel discussion with artists and scholars on Everett’s Erasure. Each panelist will provide a different window into what’s beyond Erasure or what reading Erasure inspires (broadly conceived).

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This is a panel discussion with artists and scholars on Everett’s "Erasure." Each panelist will provide a different window into what’s beyond Erasure or what reading Erasure inspires (broadly conceived).

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CAS Professor of Psychology Brent Roberts draws from the science of personality development to discuss the following questions: How important are my genes for my personality? What effect did my parents have on who I am? Does my personality matter for love, work, and health? And “am I stuck with my personality or can I change?" A reception follows this CAS Annual Lecture.

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Join us for a screening of The Librarians. Special guest, Becky Calzada, a librarian featured in the film, will be present after the screening for a fireside chat with Emily Knox, interim Dean of the School of Information Sciences (iSchool), followed by a live audience Q&A.

Saturday, October 10, 2026
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Join the Landuyt Center for Entrepreneurship this Spring 2027 as a Teaching Assistant supporting the Cozad New Venture Challenge and TE 598: Accelerating Deep Tech Enterprises.

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The Education Justice Project is hosting a "reentry simulation" on Saturday October 10, followed by a panel of system-impacted individuals who will share their experiences of reentry and discuss the complex systems and barriers that can impact reentry after incarceration.

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Join Kathryn Koca Polite for a special tour of In Search of a Future. Explore the exhibition through the curator's perspective and gain insight into the themes, selected works, and ideas that shaped the presentation. This guided conversation offers a unique opportunity to engage more deeply with the exhibition and ask questions along the way.

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Japan House's annual Fall Open House resumes on Sat, Oct. 10 featuring Professor Emeritus Kimiko Gunji and Director Jennifer Gunji-Ballsrud along with a preview of the Ogura-Sato Annex! At 12pm, they will present on the history of Japan House from its origins in the sixties to the current building's establishment and what the future holds with the Ogura-Sato Annex.

Sunday, October 11, 2026
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Join the Landuyt Center for Entrepreneurship this Spring 2027 as a Teaching Assistant supporting the Cozad New Venture Challenge and TE 598: Accelerating Deep Tech Enterprises.

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Japan House's annual Fall Open House resumes on Sat, Oct. 10 featuring Professor Emeritus Kimiko Gunji and Director Jennifer Gunji-Ballsrud along with a preview of the Ogura-Sato Annex! At 12pm, they will present on the history of Japan House from its origins in the sixties to the current building's establishment and what the future holds with the Ogura-Sato Annex.

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Join us for the interactive, hands-on science experience that is World of Genomics, featuring multiple stations focused on specific aspects of science!

Monday, October 12, 2026
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Join the Landuyt Center for Entrepreneurship this Spring 2027 as a Teaching Assistant supporting the Cozad New Venture Challenge and TE 598: Accelerating Deep Tech Enterprises.

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The Library has several locations open to welcome admitted students. Stop by to learn more about the libraries at Illinois!

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The “AI Conversation Toolkit” helps graduate students and faculty navigate if, when, and how to use AI in research. In this workshop, we’ll walk students and faculty through the toolkit, which includes: understanding responsible tool use, evaluating tools, assessing risk, and communicating expectations.

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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

Tuesday, October 13, 2026
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Join the Landuyt Center for Entrepreneurship this Spring 2027 as a Teaching Assistant supporting the Cozad New Venture Challenge and TE 598: Accelerating Deep Tech Enterprises.

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ATLAS Application Development offers many web-based applications to assist with your business or academic needs (FormBuilder, Gradebook, Exam Attendance, Event Attendance – just to name a few). Have questions about how to get started? Already using an app and want help getting the most out of your experience? Come visit our office hours, and we’d be happy to chat!

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NCSA is hosting a Machine Learning and Big Data workshop presented by the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. This workshop will focus on big data analytics and machine learning with Spark, and deep learning using Tensorflow. This is an IN PERSON event, there WILL NOT be a virtual option for this event.

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REDCap Fall Office Hours
RecurringREDCap users can schedule 15-30 minutes for discussions of general REDCap matters or items related to a specific REDCap project. Sign up for remote office hours with a REDCap Application Specialist.

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Graduate students interested in community-engaged research (CER) and leadership are invited to join CSGGE and the Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute for a panel discussion.

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Graduate students are invited to hear current and former students and their faculty mentors share how community-engaged research and leadership can build skills, expand professional networks, and shape future careers. Lunch will be provided for registered attendees.

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Kelli Trei (B.S. Microbiology, 1999, and MLIS, 2012), Associate Professor and Biosciences Librarian, University of Illinois Library, will discuss her background in microbiology and work as liaison to the Schools of Life Sciences: Molecular & Cellular Biology (MCB) and Integrative Biology, (IB) as well as to the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology.

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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

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NCSA is offering a virtual workshop to introduce the DeltaAI cluster and teach how to perform basic tasks in its cluster environment. There are no prerequisites for this workshop. Attendees will be added to a training allocation for the workshop, if they do not already have DeltaAI allocations. Register by October 9.

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The IHSI Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design (BERD) Core offers biostatistical consulting and analysis for health-related research: study design, power and sample size, data management, statistical analysis, and grant support. Rates are subsidized for Illinois investigators!

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Get up to speed quickly on the basics of making PDF documents accessible for all while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. For hands-on participation, you will need Adobe Acrobat Pro (not Acrobat Reader). U of I, UIS, and UIC faculty and staff can obtain Acrobat Pro free from the U of I Webstore: https://webstore.illinois.edu/shop/product.aspx?zpid=7227

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Learn to craft a compelling fellowship proposal.

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Higher Education Under Attack. Panelists include: Sean McDonald, co-founder of Digital Public, where he focuses on data governance design; Shawn Gilmore, a Teaching Assistant Professor in English and co-author the the recent AAUP report; and Terri Barnes Professor in the History and Gender & Women's Studies Departments.

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Please join the Unit for Criticism for a Modern Critical Theory lecture by John Lurz (English, Tufts) on Poststructuralism.

Wednesday, October 14, 2026
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Join the Landuyt Center for Entrepreneurship this Spring 2027 as a Teaching Assistant supporting the Cozad New Venture Challenge and TE 598: Accelerating Deep Tech Enterprises.

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NCSA is hosting a Machine Learning and Big Data workshop presented by the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. This workshop will focus on big data analytics and machine learning with Spark, and deep learning using Tensorflow. This is an IN PERSON event, there WILL NOT be a virtual option for this event.

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Join us as we highlight the incredible work of each of Humanities Without Walls' Reciprocity and Redistribution Grand Research Challenge projects in four virtual showcases over the 2026-27 academic year. During each event, 2-3 teams will present their projects and share a bit about the centrality of reciprocal and redistributive methods to their work.

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Join us as we highlight the incredible work of each of Humanities Without Walls' Reciprocity and Redistribution Grand Research Challenge projects in four virtual showcases over the 2026-27 academic year. During each event, 2-3 teams will present their projects and share a bit about the centrality of reciprocal and redistributive methods to their work.

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Join us to celebrate the new books of three history PhD alumni: Latinx Encounters: How Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Puerto Ricans Made the Modern Midwest by Juan Ignacio Mora (PhD, ’21, history); White, Black, Brown: Becoming Puerto Rican in Chicago by Michael Staudenmaier (PhD, ‘16, history)...

Thursday, October 15, 2026
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Join the Landuyt Center for Entrepreneurship this Spring 2027 as a Teaching Assistant supporting the Cozad New Venture Challenge and TE 598: Accelerating Deep Tech Enterprises.

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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

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Professor Ángel García (English/Creative Writing) will read from his latest collection, Indifferent Cities.

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Professor Ángel Garcia (English/Creative Writing) will read from his latest collection, Indifferent Cities.

Friday, October 16, 2026
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Join the Landuyt Center for Entrepreneurship this Spring 2027 as a Teaching Assistant supporting the Cozad New Venture Challenge and TE 598: Accelerating Deep Tech Enterprises.

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This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.

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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

Saturday, October 17, 2026
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Join the Landuyt Center for Entrepreneurship this Spring 2027 as a Teaching Assistant supporting the Cozad New Venture Challenge and TE 598: Accelerating Deep Tech Enterprises.

Sunday, October 18, 2026
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Join the Landuyt Center for Entrepreneurship this Spring 2027 as a Teaching Assistant supporting the Cozad New Venture Challenge and TE 598: Accelerating Deep Tech Enterprises.

Monday, October 19, 2026
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Join the Landuyt Center for Entrepreneurship this Spring 2027 as a Teaching Assistant supporting the Cozad New Venture Challenge and TE 598: Accelerating Deep Tech Enterprises.

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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

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Get up to speed quickly on making your Microsoft Word documents accessible for everyone while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll start with a brief overview of common accessibility challenges in Word and then jump right into practice.

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This lecture traces the emergence of Mizrahi Jews as go-betweens within the shifting political, linguistic, and cultural geographies of the modern Middle East.

Tuesday, October 20, 2026
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Join the Landuyt Center for Entrepreneurship this Spring 2027 as a Teaching Assistant supporting the Cozad New Venture Challenge and TE 598: Accelerating Deep Tech Enterprises.

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ATLAS Application Development offers many web-based applications to assist with your business or academic needs (FormBuilder, Gradebook, Exam Attendance, Event Attendance – just to name a few). Have questions about how to get started? Already using an app and want help getting the most out of your experience? Come visit our office hours, and we’d be happy to chat!

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REDCap Fall Office Hours
RecurringREDCap users can schedule 15-30 minutes for discussions of general REDCap matters or items related to a specific REDCap project. Sign up for remote office hours with a REDCap Application Specialist.

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Andreas Pfenning, PhD School of Computer Science; Carnegie Mellon University “Connecting Genetics to Behavior Using Machine Learning”

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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

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Learn to craft a compelling fellowship proposal.

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Get up to speed quickly on the basics of making PDF documents accessible for all while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. For hands-on participation, you will need Adobe Acrobat Pro (not Acrobat Reader). U of I, UIS, and UIC faculty and staff can obtain Acrobat Pro free from the U of I Webstore: https://webstore.illinois.edu/shop/product.aspx?zpid=7227

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Please join the Unit for Criticism for a Modern Critical Theory lecture by Greta LaFleur (American Studies, Yale) on Gender.

Wednesday, October 21, 2026
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Join the Landuyt Center for Entrepreneurship this Spring 2027 as a Teaching Assistant supporting the Cozad New Venture Challenge and TE 598: Accelerating Deep Tech Enterprises.

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Research Park and the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation host a Champaign-Urbana AgTech Breakfast for community leaders and local professionals in the agricultural technology sector. The event is by invite-only and held 8 to 9:30 a.m. at the Illinois Conference Center.

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Students, researchers and community leaders are invited to connect with GoPA! and GoPE! leaders to explore global physical activity and physical education surveillance, research and policy. Learn how country cards track progress, gaps and opportunities worldwide, and help shape the next generation of monitoring tools for healthier, more active societies.

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Interested in conducting research abroad? This workshop introduces the fundamentals of writing a successful fellowship proposal for international research. Learn how to identify funding opportunities, communicate the significance of your overseas research, and craft persuasive application materials that stand out in competitive review processes. Lunch at 12pm w/registrati

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“Where Science Meets Society: How Outreach Brings the IGB Motto to Materiality” Dan Urban Assistant Director of Outreach Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Thursday, October 22, 2026
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Join the Landuyt Center for Entrepreneurship this Spring 2027 as a Teaching Assistant supporting the Cozad New Venture Challenge and TE 598: Accelerating Deep Tech Enterprises.

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Students, researchers and community leaders are invited to connect with GoPA! and GoPE! leaders to explore global physical activity and physical education surveillance, research and policy. Learn how country cards track progress, gaps and opportunities worldwide, and help shape the next generation of monitoring tools for healthier, more active societies.

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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

Friday, October 23, 2026
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Join the Landuyt Center for Entrepreneurship this Spring 2027 as a Teaching Assistant supporting the Cozad New Venture Challenge and TE 598: Accelerating Deep Tech Enterprises.

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Please join us for the Game Studies and Design October Town Hall. This month's guest speaker is Amber Holkenbrink, Principal Experience Designer on Apex Legends at Respawn Entertainment. She has worked in the game industry for over 16 years and has contributed to the art, animation, and design of more than 30 titles, including Call of Duty: Warzone.

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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

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In this CAS/MillerComm presentation, GAM Visiting Scholar Professor Sangaré (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales - INALCO) treats Islam in France as a case study in the state management of minority religion in a secular republic. Hosted by the Department of History.

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Join us for a professional development presentation from a visiting literary agent! Rayhané Sanders will give a glimpse at the nuts and bolts of publishing, working in publishing, query letters, and other aspects of the literary trade. This will include some do's and don'ts and plenty of time for questions and answers.

Saturday, October 24, 2026
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Join the Landuyt Center for Entrepreneurship this Spring 2027 as a Teaching Assistant supporting the Cozad New Venture Challenge and TE 598: Accelerating Deep Tech Enterprises.

Sunday, October 25, 2026
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Join the Landuyt Center for Entrepreneurship this Spring 2027 as a Teaching Assistant supporting the Cozad New Venture Challenge and TE 598: Accelerating Deep Tech Enterprises.

Monday, October 26, 2026
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Following the election, this panel examines the results and their significance for Brazil's future. Speakers will analyze voting patterns, political shifts, and the potential impact of the election on governance, public policy, and democratic institutions.

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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

Tuesday, October 27, 2026
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ATLAS Application Development offers many web-based applications to assist with your business or academic needs (FormBuilder, Gradebook, Exam Attendance, Event Attendance – just to name a few). Have questions about how to get started? Already using an app and want help getting the most out of your experience? Come visit our office hours, and we’d be happy to chat!

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REDCap Fall Office Hours
RecurringREDCap users can schedule 15-30 minutes for discussions of general REDCap matters or items related to a specific REDCap project. Sign up for remote office hours with a REDCap Application Specialist.

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Heidi Parker, PhD Associate Investigator, National Human Genome Research Institute "The Dog as a Genetic Blueprint: Utilizing Population Structure to Map Complex Traits"

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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

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The techniques for making texts have changed across multiple media and historical contexts since antiquity, but a regular feature of the work of authors and scholars through all those changes is the reliance on helpers or amanuenses. Dr. Ann Blair (Harvard) will discuss the factors that have made them both invisible and occasionally visible, and the kind of work they did.

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Humanities Career Discovery Group
RecurringWork together to explore what comes next

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Please join the Unit for Criticism for a Modern Critical Theory lecture by Rob Rushing (European Languages & Transcultural Studies, UCLA) on Biopolitics.

Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Thursday, October 29, 2026
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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

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Professor Gillen D'Arcy Wood (English and Earth Science & Environmental Change) will discuss his book, The Wake of HMS Challenger: How a Legendary Victorian Voyage Tells the Story of Our Oceans’ Decline.

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Professor Gillen D'Arcy Wood (English and Earth Science & Environmental Change) will discuss his book, The Wake of HMS Challenger: How a Legendary Victorian Voyage Tells the Story of Our Oceans’ Decline.

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Fire At Five Happy Hour has returned! Join us on Thursday, October 29 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on the Atkins Patio & Lawn.

Friday, October 30, 2026
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Join us Friday, Oct. 30, 1005 Beckman and the Beckman Atrium for a Core Facilities Showcase! We'll serve breakfast and lunch. The event will also feature lightning talks, "Ask the expert" booths, posters and tours of the core facilities.

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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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The iSchool Research Showcase shares human-centered, interdisciplinary research through a keynote speech and a series of short presentations and posters by School of Information Sciences faculty, staff, and graduate students. All are invited to attend. Refreshments will be served.

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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

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Youssouf Sangaré (George A. Miller Visiting Scholar) will examine the case of Chérif Ousmane Madani Haïdara and the Ançar Dine movement in Mali as a window into the dynamics of contemporary African Islam.

Saturday, October 31, 2026
Sunday, November 1, 2026
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Grainger Engineering undergrads - consider a dual degree! Your primary degree + the ILEE degree.

Monday, November 2, 2026
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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

Tuesday, November 3, 2026
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ATLAS Application Development offers many web-based applications to assist with your business or academic needs (FormBuilder, Gradebook, Exam Attendance, Event Attendance – just to name a few). Have questions about how to get started? Already using an app and want help getting the most out of your experience? Come visit our office hours, and we’d be happy to chat!

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REDCap Fall Office Hours
RecurringREDCap users can schedule 15-30 minutes for discussions of general REDCap matters or items related to a specific REDCap project. Sign up for remote office hours with a REDCap Application Specialist.

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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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Professor Xiao Su presents innovative electrochemical approaches for addressing environmental challenges and improving water purification technologies. The lecture explores emerging research that advances sustainable solutions for water treatment and environmental remediation.

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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

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This hands-on workshop covers what makes digital math accessible for all learners, including major accessible math formats, accessible math tools, structuring workflows to deliver accessible math, and how digital math interacts with platforms like Canvas, Jupyter Notebook, MS Office documents, and webpages. See full description for free software requirements.

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Humanities Career Discovery Group
RecurringWork together to explore what comes next

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Please join the Unit for Criticism for a Modern Critical Theory lecture by Chi-Ming Yang (English, University of Pennsylvania) on Orientalism.

Wednesday, November 4, 2026
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Read understandable research posters from 12:30-2:30 p.m. in the Beckman Atrium (winner announced at 4:30 in the atrium). Then, celebrate winners of the Vision and Spirit Award, Staff Spirit and Dedication Award and robotic arm naming contest at 2:30 p.m. in the Beckman Auditorium.

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Bruce J. Tromberg, the director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering at the National Institutes of Health, will give the Beckman-Brown Lecture on Interdisciplinary Science at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4, in the auditorium of the Beckman Institute.

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Taiwanese artist Yao Jui-Chung and critic Kao Chien-Hui engage in a conversation about Yao's practice within Taiwan's layered histories of migration, colonialism, martial law, and contested boundaries. A reception precedes the talk at 4:00 PM. Presented in tandem with Ink Shower: Contemporary Taiwanese Artists Reimagine Tradition at the Krannert Art Museum.

Thursday, November 5, 2026
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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

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An overview of the industry/nonprofit job search

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Representatives from the HuMetricsHSS Humane Metrics Initiative will present on the values-based frameworks they’ve developed to guide all kinds of scholarly processes.

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Representatives from the HuMetricsHSS Humane Metrics Initiative will present on the values-based frameworks they’ve developed to guide all kinds of scholarly processes. The session will include time for audience questions.

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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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Join us for a reading by Illinois Alumni, Chekwube Danladi, Chris Vanjonack, and Weston Morrow!

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November 5 | 5-7 pm | CIF Monumental Steps | Looking for teammates to move your idea forward? Make your idea a reality at SocialFuse: a pitching, team-building and networking event for you! We'll also answer your questions about the Cozad New Venture Challenge.

Friday, November 6, 2026
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Startup companies and their employees who work within the EnterpriseWorks building are invited to join us for networking and breakfast from 9 to 10 a.m. on the first Friday of every month.

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Professor Stefania Chiarelli explores representations of water, rivers, and aquatic environments in Brazilian literature. Drawing on examples from Brazilian prose, the lecture examines how aquatic imagery shapes narratives, cultural memory, and literary interpretations of place and identity.

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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

Saturday, November 7, 2026
Sunday, November 8, 2026
Monday, November 9, 2026
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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

Tuesday, November 10, 2026
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The Lemann Center Grad Forum showcases research conducted by graduate students whose work engages with Brazil. Through presentations and discussion sessions, participants share emerging scholarship, exchange ideas across disciplines, and strengthen connections within the Brazilian studies community at Illinois.

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ATLAS Application Development offers many web-based applications to assist with your business or academic needs (FormBuilder, Gradebook, Exam Attendance, Event Attendance – just to name a few). Have questions about how to get started? Already using an app and want help getting the most out of your experience? Come visit our office hours, and we’d be happy to chat!

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Get up to speed quickly on the basics of making PDF documents accessible for all while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. For hands-on participation, you will need Adobe Acrobat Pro (not Acrobat Reader). U of I, UIS, and UIC faculty and staff can obtain Acrobat Pro free from the U of I Webstore: https://webstore.illinois.edu/shop/product.aspx?zpid=7227

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REDCap Fall Office Hours
RecurringREDCap users can schedule 15-30 minutes for discussions of general REDCap matters or items related to a specific REDCap project. Sign up for remote office hours with a REDCap Application Specialist.

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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

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Humanities Career Discovery Group
RecurringWork together to explore what comes next

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Immigration attorney Matthew Meltzer of Meltzer Hellrung, LLC, who specializes in employment-based immigration and works with entrepreneurs and companies, will share practical guidance and answer student questions. Whether you already have a startup, are exploring an idea, or simply want to understand your options for pursuing entrepreneurship in the U.S., this workshop is

Wednesday, November 11, 2026
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Please join us for this community building event! We will share information about the new MS in Game Development, and showcase games we are building and playing right now. We will also hear from our guest speaker Jeremy Moncauskas, Senior Level Designer at WB Games.

Thursday, November 12, 2026
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Please join Library Trends in a discussion on the ways politics and war affect cultural heritage and the library and information science field's role in safeguarding these histories. The guest editors and authors of select articles from 75 (1), "Cultural Heritage in Crisis" will be presenting their research.

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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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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

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Emblematica (Illinois) and Compositor (U. of Birmingham) are databases that use digital technologies to explore the early modern text-image interface. Join Dr. Hazel Wilkinson (Birmingham) to learn how historical readers used “emblem-literacy” to engage with ornamented books in ways previously unaccounted for in scholarship.

Friday, November 13, 2026
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Join the Data + AI User Group on Friday, November 13 from noon to 1 p.m for their monthly meetup.

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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

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Master the art of the personal statement.

Saturday, November 14, 2026
Sunday, November 15, 2026
Monday, November 16, 2026
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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

Tuesday, November 17, 2026
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ATLAS Application Development offers many web-based applications to assist with your business or academic needs (FormBuilder, Gradebook, Exam Attendance, Event Attendance – just to name a few). Have questions about how to get started? Already using an app and want help getting the most out of your experience? Come visit our office hours, and we’d be happy to chat!

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REDCap Fall Office Hours
RecurringREDCap users can schedule 15-30 minutes for discussions of general REDCap matters or items related to a specific REDCap project. Sign up for remote office hours with a REDCap Application Specialist.

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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

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The Microscopy Suite at the Beckman Institute offers instruments from fluorescence and confocal to electron, scanned probe, and X-ray microscopy, plus wet lab support and staff training for registered users with 24/7 facility access. Join us to learn how it can support your research.

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Get up to speed quickly on the basics of making PDF documents accessible for all while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. For hands-on participation, you will need Adobe Acrobat Pro (not Acrobat Reader). U of I, UIS, and UIC faculty and staff can obtain Acrobat Pro free from the U of I Webstore: https://webstore.illinois.edu/shop/product.aspx?zpid=7227

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Humanities Career Discovery Group
RecurringWork together to explore what comes next

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Please join the Unit for Criticism for a Modern Critical Theory lecture by Thomas Davis (English, Ohio State) on Environmental Humanities.

Wednesday, November 18, 2026
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Get up to speed quickly on making your Microsoft Word documents accessible for everyone while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll start with a brief overview of common accessibility challenges in Word and then jump right into practice.

Thursday, November 19, 2026
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Get up to speed quickly on making your PowerPoint presentations accessible for everyone while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll begin with a brief overview of common accessibility challenges in PowerPoint and then dive straight into practical solutions.

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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

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Learn to craft a compelling fellowship proposal.

Friday, November 20, 2026
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This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.

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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

Saturday, November 21, 2026
Monday, November 23, 2026
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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

Tuesday, November 24, 2026
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ATLAS Application Development offers many web-based applications to assist with your business or academic needs (FormBuilder, Gradebook, Exam Attendance, Event Attendance – just to name a few). Have questions about how to get started? Already using an app and want help getting the most out of your experience? Come visit our office hours, and we’d be happy to chat!

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REDCap Fall Office Hours
RecurringREDCap users can schedule 15-30 minutes for discussions of general REDCap matters or items related to a specific REDCap project. Sign up for remote office hours with a REDCap Application Specialist.

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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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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

Wednesday, November 25, 2026
Thursday, November 26, 2026
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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

Friday, November 27, 2026
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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

Monday, November 30, 2026
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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.




















