Research Technology Master Calendar

Sunday, March 1, 2026

Monday, March 2, 2026

  • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
    Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W. Illinois St

    Join us for talks from our recent Associates and Fellows. At 11am Yi-Cheng Wang (Food Science & Human Nutrition) discusses the development of self-powered light-based sanitizers to enhance food safety and at noon...

  • 12:00 - 4:00 pm
    Innovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building

    Come visit Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning at Illinois Innovation Studio between Noon and 4 p.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays in the Armory building room 172. You will be able to interact with generative AI and virtual reality (VR), create a gift with a 3D printer or laser cutter, and interact with our new digital resources.

  • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
    2203 Beckman Institute

    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, March 3, 2026

  • 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
    Main Library Orange Room, or via Zoom

  • 9:30 - 10:30 am
    English Building, Suite 112

    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!

  • 12:00 - 4:00 pm
    Innovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building

    Come visit Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning at Illinois Innovation Studio between Noon and 4 p.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays in the Armory building room 172. You will be able to interact with generative AI and virtual reality (VR), create a gift with a 3D printer or laser cutter, and interact with our new digital resources.

  • 12:00 pm
    612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

    Shai Bel, PhD Azrieli Faculty of Medicine; Bar-Ilan University “Partners in Slime: Host-Microbiota Interactions in the Gut Mucus Layer”

  • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
    2203 Beckman Institute

    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.

  • 1:00 - 2:00 pm
    Champaign Public Library (Robeson Pavilion A/B) - 200 W. Green Street, Champaign, IL 61820

    Join us on Tuesday, March 3rd from 1-2 p.m. for a workshop on Mastering Instagram Reels at the Champaign Public Library with Scott Clanin of Clanin Creative.

  • 1:00 - 2:00 pm

    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.

  • Justin Garcia
    7:30 pm
    Levis Faculty Center, Room 422

    Dr. Justin R. Garcia is an evolutionary biologist and sex researcher. He is executive director and senior scientist at the Kinsey Institute, Ruth N. Halls Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, and adjunct professor of medicine at Indiana University, Bloomington.

  • Justin Garcia
    7:30 pm
    Levis Faculty Center, Room 422

    Dr. Justin R. Garcia is an evolutionary biologist and sex researcher. He is executive director and senior scientist at the Kinsey Institute, Ruth N. Halls Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, and adjunct professor of medicine at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Thursday, March 5, 2026

Friday, March 6, 2026

Saturday, March 7, 2026

  • 8:30 am
    Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

    This informal group aims to bring together graduate students from across campus to share their enthusiasm for the thought-provoking scholarship that animates them as people. Light refreshments will be provided. This edition of Scholarship Out Loud will be part of the 2026 Women’s and Gender History Symposium.

  • 8:30 am
    Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

    This informal group aims to bring together graduate students from across campus to share their enthusiasm for the thought-provoking scholarship that animates them as people. Light refreshments will be provided. This edition of Scholarship Out Loud will be part of the 2026 Women’s and Gender History Symposium.

Monday, March 9, 2026

  • 12:00 - 4:00 pm
    Innovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building

    Come visit Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning at Illinois Innovation Studio between Noon and 4 p.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays in the Armory building room 172. You will be able to interact with generative AI and virtual reality (VR), create a gift with a 3D printer or laser cutter, and interact with our new digital resources.

  • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
    2203 Beckman Institute

    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.

  • 1:00 - 2:00 pm

  • 3:00 - 4:00 pm
    EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, Champaign

    Join us on Monday, March 9 for a special EnterpriseWorks tour during AgTech Week, held before the AgTech Week Happy Hour. Starting at 3 p.m., tour the incubator to learn about entrepreneurship resources and opportunities available at EnterpriseWorks and the Research Park.

  • 4:00 - 6:00 pm
    EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, Champaign, IL

    Research Park and the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation invite you to join us for the AgTech Week Happy Hour.

  • 5:00 - 7:00 pm
    Alice Campbell Alumni Center (601 S. Lincoln Ave., Urbana)

    Please join us for the launch of Black, Jewish, and Beautiful: Contemporary Blewish Voices (Syracuse University Press, 2026). This anthology, co-edited by Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell, Sara Feldman, and Brett Ashley Kaplan, brings together impactful perspectives from diverse Blewish/Black Jewish landscapes in the U.S. and globally.

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

  • 8:30 am - 6:00 pm
    Illinois Conference Center, 1900 S. First St., Champaign, IL

    One of the premier AgTech hubs in the nation, Champaign-Urbana is uniquely positioned to bring together entrepreneurs, investors, academics, and industry for learning, networking and advancing this sector. 

  • 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
    Main Library Orange Room, or via Zoom

  • 9:30 - 10:30 am
    English Building, Suite 112

    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!

  • 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
    In person at 103 Armory or Virtual via Zoom

    Our selected book will be… The New College Classroom (Davidson & Katopodis, 2022) Hybrid meetings are 11:00 AM -12:30 PM on Tuesdays - January 27, February 10 & 24, and March 10.

  • 12:00 - 4:00 pm
    Innovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building

    Come visit Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning at Illinois Innovation Studio between Noon and 4 p.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays in the Armory building room 172. You will be able to interact with generative AI and virtual reality (VR), create a gift with a 3D printer or laser cutter, and interact with our new digital resources.

  • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
    2203 Beckman Institute

    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.

  • 3:00 - 4:00 pm

    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.

  • 5:00 pm
    Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory

    Ingrid Sinclair’s feature-length film Flame (1986) tells the story of two young African women who join the liberation struggle for Zimbabwe in the 1970s. The film follows Flame and Liberty as they are faced with sexual harassment by male freedom fighters and later, by the patriarchy of the newly liberated Zimbabwe.

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Thursday, March 12, 2026

Friday, March 13, 2026

Saturday, March 14, 2026

Monday, March 16, 2026

Tuesday, March 17, 2026

  • 10:00 - 11:00 am

    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.

  • 12:00 - 4:00 pm
    Innovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building

    Come visit Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning at Illinois Innovation Studio between Noon and 4 p.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays in the Armory building room 172. You will be able to interact with generative AI and virtual reality (VR), create a gift with a 3D printer or laser cutter, and interact with our new digital resources.

  • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
    2203 Beckman Institute

    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, March 18, 2026

Thursday, March 19, 2026

Friday, March 20, 2026

  • 10:00 - 11:00 am

    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=6065

  • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
    EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, Champaign

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

  • 12:30 - 1:30 pm
    Siebel 4401

    Welcome to our new Postdocs, and welcome back to returning Postdocs! We are resuming weekly lunch meetings with Professor Mohammed El-Kebir. They will be held every Friday from 12:30-1:30pm in the Faculty/Staff Lounge on the 4th floor (SC 4401), barring campus holidays and breaks. Pizza will be served at every meeting!

  • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
    2203 Beckman Institute

    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.

  • 3:00 - 4:00 pm

    Get up to speed quickly on making your MS Excel spreadsheets accessible for everyone! In this hands-on workshop, we'll work together, hands-on, with practical strategies for naming tables, labeling header cells and workbook titles and sheets, creating accessible links, and working with colors and color testing tools.

Sunday, March 22, 2026

  • 1:00 pm
    Riggs Beer Company, 1901 S High Cross Rd, Urbana, IL 61802

    Science on Tap is a monthly seminar series that brings scientists to the public to talk about their research in an informal setting.

Monday, March 23, 2026

  • 7:00 am

  • 12:00 - 4:00 pm
    Innovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building

    Come visit Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning at Illinois Innovation Studio between Noon and 4 p.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays in the Armory building room 172. You will be able to interact with generative AI and virtual reality (VR), create a gift with a 3D printer or laser cutter, and interact with our new digital resources.

  • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
    2203 Beckman Institute

    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, March 24, 2026

  • 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
    Main Library Orange Room, or via Zoom

  • 9:30 - 10:30 am
    English Building, Suite 112

    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!

  • 10:00 - 11:00 am

    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.

  • 12:00 - 4:00 pm
    Innovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building

    Come visit Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning at Illinois Innovation Studio between Noon and 4 p.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays in the Armory building room 172. You will be able to interact with generative AI and virtual reality (VR), create a gift with a 3D printer or laser cutter, and interact with our new digital resources.

  • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
    2203 Beckman Institute

    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.

  • 2:00 - 3:00 pm

    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.

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Thursday, March 26, 2026

Friday, March 27, 2026

Monday, March 30, 2026

Tuesday, March 31, 2026