Research Technology Master Calendar
Tuesday, February 17, 2026
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All DayMain Library, 3rd Floor, Rooms 309 & 321This exhibition presents a selection of Chinese nianhua and related images exploring Lunar New Year themes and the horse, offering a glimpse into the hopes, stories, and celebrations they carry. May you enjoy an energetic and fruitful year ahead.
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9:00 am - 12:00 pmMain Library Orange Room, or via Zoom -
9:30 - 10:30 amEnglish 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!
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10:00 - 11:00 amGet 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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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic BiologyAdam Arkin, PHD Dean A. Richard Newton Memorial Professor of Bioengineering University of California, Berkeley "Engineering Microbial Systems for Transformation, Protection, and Function Across Extreme Environment"
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12:00 - 4:00 pmInnovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory BuildingCome 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.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm3269 Beckman Institute
Cutler Phillippe will present on Analysis of Parachute Microstructural Strains in 3D with Micro-Computed Tomography and Image Segmentation
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12:00 - 1:00 pmEnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin us for a Research Park Lunar New Year Celebration on Tuesday, February 17 from 12 to 1 p.m.
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 Beckman InstituteBeckman’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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1:00 - 3:00 pmNCSA is offering a 2-hour 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 February 13th.
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1:00 - 2:00 pmHenry Administration Building 143
Speaker: Haoran Luo (UIC) Title: A jump in the codegree Turán density of long tight cycles
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1:00 - 2:00 pm
Learn the basics of Illinois REDCap and how it can be used for the collection of research data, including how to create projects, instruments, and surveys and how to start collecting research data.
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1:00 - 2:00 pmIn this workshop, you will learn the basics of Illinois REDCap and how it can be used for the collection of research data, including how to create projects, instruments, and surveys and how to start collecting research data. It is recommended (but not required) that you have a REDCap account prior to attending the workshop
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1:00 - 2:00 pmSkeuomorph Press & BookLabWagner's talk, “'As Usual You Have Produced Yet Another Installment Worthy of Archiving': The Persistence of Obsolescence in Queer Information & Media Technologies," uses archival object case studies to call attention to how data exists within the objects of queer history...
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2:00 - 4:00 pm
During this virtual, drop-in event, ATLAS staff will provide one-on-one guidance on digital accessibility and course content, helping faculty ensure their materials are inclusive, compliant, and ready for the new semester. Whether you’re updating your Canvas site, remediating documents, or just want to learn best practices, the ATLAS team will be there to assist.
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4:00 pm100 Material Science Engineering Building
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5:00 - 6:30 pmW203 Turner Hall, 1102 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana, ILJoin us on campus at Turner Hall on Tuesday, Feb. 17 from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. for an AgTech Career Panel.
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
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All DayMain Library, 3rd Floor, Rooms 309 & 321
This exhibition presents a selection of Chinese nianhua and related images exploring Lunar New Year themes and the horse, offering a glimpse into the hopes, stories, and celebrations they carry. May you enjoy an energetic and fruitful year ahead.
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10:00 am - 12:00 pmLearn to craft a compelling fellowship proposal.
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12:00 - 1:30 pm1201 W. Nevada StHappy Black History Month, Campus Community! As we observe 100 years of formal celebrations of Black history, the Department of African American Studies is hosting its Spring 2026 Colloquium Series. The series starts on Wednesday, February 18, 2026, from 12pm to 1:30pm, with a talk by Dr. Alisa Hardy (Dept. of Communication). All talks are in-person only.
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12:00 - 1:00 pmLincoln Hall, Lisnek LAS Hub
Current ATLAS Interns - Stop by to discussion your progress and any questions you have with an ATLAS Internship Program Coordinator. Prospective Students - Are you looking for internship experience working with technology? Stop by and learn more about opportunities in digital communication, data management/analysis, emerging technologies and more.
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
“Single-Molecule Spatial Organization and Dynamics of Nuclear Speckle Components Revealed by MINFLUX Nanoscopy” Minxue Liu, PhD Candidate – Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 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.
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1:00 - 2:00 pmLearn how to improve the accessibility of your Moodle material by working hands-on with the new FACT Accessibility Checker developed by ATLAS.
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1:00 - 2:00 pm
In this hands-on workshop, we will cover the key strategies for designing accessible course content in Moodle. Participants will learn how to create accessible headings, tables, lists, and hyperlinks, as well as how to write alt text for images, generate and edit video captions, and incorporate other elements that will help students navigate courses and access information
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1:00 - 3:30 pmLearn to craft a compelling fellowship proposal.
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2:00 - 4:00 pmEnglish Building, Room 304
During this drop-in event, ATLAS staff will provide one-on-one guidance on digital accessibility and course content, helping faculty ensure their materials are inclusive, compliant, and ready for the new semester. Whether you’re updating your Canvas site, remediating documents, or just want to learn best practices, the ATLAS team will be there to assist.
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2:00 - 3:00 pmGet 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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4:00 - 5:30 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 422
This is the spring semester installment of the Latina/Latino Studies Speaker Series with Dr. Marla A. Ramírez, assistant professor of History and Chicanx/e & Latinx/e Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Ramírez will discuss her recent book Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation (Harvard University Press, 2025)
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4:00 - 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102 -
6:30 pmThe Literary: 122 N Neil St, Champaign, IL 61820
Spurlock Museum is proud to partner with The Literary to present this new community program. Free books will be provided to the first 13 people that sign up for participation: February 18, 2026 6:30-7:30pm - An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Thursday, February 19, 2026
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All DayMain Library, 3rd Floor, Rooms 309 & 321
This exhibition presents a selection of Chinese nianhua and related images exploring Lunar New Year themes and the horse, offering a glimpse into the hopes, stories, and celebrations they carry. May you enjoy an energetic and fruitful year ahead.
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10:30 - 11:30 am
REDCap 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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12:00 pm2005 MEL John Deere Pavilion
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12:00 - 1:30 pmThis session covers how to develop the administrative and compliance sections of NIH proposals.
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12:00 - 1:00 pmUniversity Archives, Room 146, Main LibraryIf you like trivia or university history, come to our second Ultimate Archives Trivia! Questions will focus on University of Illinois history involving academics, athletics, inventions, events, faculty, and alumni.
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12:30 pm 1:30 pmGregory Hall, Room 336
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 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.
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2:30 - 5:00 pmSiebel Center for Design, 1208 South Fourth Street, Champaign, Illinois 61820
STUDENTS: Connect with industry professionals and current interns in the arts and culture! Learn about the career possibilities connected with arts and culture. Talk to working professionals in museums, cultural outreach, performing arts, arts administration, public media, and related fields.
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4:00 - 5:00 pmGraduate College 202 (507 E. Green St., Champaign)Learn more about immigration options for advanced degree holders
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4:00 02/24/2026Campus Instructional Facilty (CIF) CIF 0035, 1405 Springfield Ave, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United StatesCome meet a panel of Site Directors from Research Park ready to answer your questions about how to find an internship!
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4:00 pm119 Material Science Engineering Building
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4:30 pmIllini Union Bookstore | Author's CornerA reading by Callie Siskel made possible by the Robert J. and Katherin Carr visiting author series. Callie Siskel is the author of Two Minds, forthcoming from W. W. Norton, and Arctic Revival, selected by Elizabeth Alexander for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship.
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5:15 - 6:45 pmPlym Auditorium, Temple Hoyne Buell HallOn February 19, Carlos Alberto Torres, Distinguished Professor at UCLA and former director of UCLA's Latin American Center, will give a lecture celebrating the extraordinary humanitarian career of Paulo Freire, author of Pedagogy of the Oppressed, in which he analyzed the analogous relationship of colonizer and colonized to that of teacher and student.
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5:30 - 7:30 pmKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., ChampaignJoin us for a special evening at Krannert Art Museum in partnership with Uniting Pride Center of Champaign County. This event celebrates queer art and artists with a mix of engaging experiences, including live music, guided tours, hands-on artmaking, artist demonstrations, and hors d’oeuvres. Free and open to everyone. We look forward to welcoming you!
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5:30 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock MuseumThis presentation examines the entangled histories of Indigenous land dispossession, the founding of the land-grant university system, and epistemicide in settler colonial institutions. This talk draws a direct line between the violent expropriation of Indigenous territories to the erasure of Indigenous peoples on campuses and in American institutions at large.
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7:00 pmAsian American Cultural Center, 1210 W. Nevada, Urbana
Poetry reading by Jenny L. Davis, citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, where she is the director of the American Indian Studies Program. Dr. Davis will read selected poems from her new book, Extant. All are welcome!
Friday, February 20, 2026
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All DayMain Library, 3rd Floor, Rooms 309 & 321
This exhibition presents a selection of Chinese nianhua and related images exploring Lunar New Year themes and the horse, offering a glimpse into the hopes, stories, and celebrations they carry. May you enjoy an energetic and fruitful year ahead.
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9:00 am - 12:00 pmMain Library Orange Room, or via Zoom
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10:00 - 11:30 am
This workshop will give you hands-on experience using CUDA-Q to write and run quantum programs. This workshop is intended for quantum computing beginners.
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10:00 - 11:00 amDocuments 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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12:00 - 1:00 pmEnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, ChampaignThis is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.
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12:00 - 1:00 pmUniversity Archives Main Library Room 146
Please join us for the University Archives' monthly Women in Science Lecture Series, Feb 20, from 12 -1 pm. Bethany Anderson, Dr. Mary Ton, and Kristen Wilson will discuss making domestic science archival materials accessible and using AI to help with OCR and Named Entity Recognition. Hear how this data will then be used to share women scientists’ stories.
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12:30 - 1:30 pmSiebel 4401Welcome 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!
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 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.
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1:00 - 2:30 pmMaster the art of the personal statement.
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2:00 - 3:30 pmKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., ChampaignOur partners in Peru will speak about current research on Andean cultural heritage and the ongoing collaborations with Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) and Krannert Art Museum on the Fragmented Histories: Andean Art Before 1600 exhibition project. Presented in person and via Zoom. En español e inglés.
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2:00 pmBeckman Institute 4269 - 4th Floor Tower Room
Professor Jeff Wiggins from the School of Polymer Science and Engineering at the University of Southern Mississippi will discuss how polymer innovations for the aerospace and defense composite material communities translate from the laboratory scale through the pre-qualification scale.
Saturday, February 21, 2026
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All DayMain Library, 3rd Floor, Rooms 309 & 321
This exhibition presents a selection of Chinese nianhua and related images exploring Lunar New Year themes and the horse, offering a glimpse into the hopes, stories, and celebrations they carry. May you enjoy an energetic and fruitful year ahead.
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11:00 amSpurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
Join us for this special guided tour: Percussion instruments, especially drums, have been an almost ubiquitous part of the human experience, from war snares to the heart of a powwow to street buckets and a modern trap kit.
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1:00 pmSpurlock Museum
Join us for a guided tour exploring our university’s connection to the artifacts at the Spurlock Museum. See how the ancient and not so ancient world appears across campus in unexpected ways. We’ll discuss the land’s origins, the Alma Mater’s ties to Ancient Greece, cultural houses’ contributions, the Illinois Ambulance Unit in WWI, and more.
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4:00 - 6:00 pmKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
Enjoy live music in the galleries and a reception to celebrate Imagination, Faith, and Desire: Early European Prints from 1475–1800 (on view through Feb 28). The evening will include brief remarks by Curator of European and American Art Maureen Warren. Harpsichordist Charlotte Mattax Moersch and the Urbana Baroque ensemble will perform on period instruments.
Sunday, February 22, 2026
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All DayMain Library, 3rd Floor, Rooms 309 & 321
This exhibition presents a selection of Chinese nianhua and related images exploring Lunar New Year themes and the horse, offering a glimpse into the hopes, stories, and celebrations they carry. May you enjoy an energetic and fruitful year ahead.
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1:00 pmRiggs 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, February 23, 2026
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All DayMain Library, 3rd Floor, Rooms 309 & 321
This exhibition presents a selection of Chinese nianhua and related images exploring Lunar New Year themes and the horse, offering a glimpse into the hopes, stories, and celebrations they carry. May you enjoy an energetic and fruitful year ahead.
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11:00 am
Deep dive into the digitized Domestic Science/Home Economics archival collections. In this edit-a-thon, we'll be transcribing documents, identifying people, and translating information into Wikidata. Each session will have an introduction before working with the documents, and we'll be circulating guides ahead of the session.
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12:00 - 4:00 pmInnovation 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.
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 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.
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5:00 pmIllini Union Room 210
Around the turn of the twentieth century, a group of Yiddish-speaking educators, authors, and cultural leaders undertook a bold project: creating a corpus of nearly one thousand books and several periodicals, which flourished in conjunction with the secular Yiddish school systems that spanned the globe in the 1920s and 30s.
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
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All DayMain Library, 3rd Floor, Rooms 309 & 321
This exhibition presents a selection of Chinese nianhua and related images exploring Lunar New Year themes and the horse, offering a glimpse into the hopes, stories, and celebrations they carry. May you enjoy an energetic and fruitful year ahead.
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9:00 am - 12:00 pmMain Library Orange Room, or via Zoom
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9:30 - 10:30 amEnglish 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!
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10:00 am - 12:00 pm
During this virtual, drop-in event, ATLAS staff will provide one-on-one guidance on digital accessibility and course content, helping faculty ensure their materials are inclusive, compliant, and ready for the new semester. Whether you’re updating your Canvas site, remediating documents, or just want to learn best practices, the ATLAS team will be there to assist.
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11:00 am - 12:30 pmIn 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.
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12:00 - 4:00 pmInnovation 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.
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Angad Mehta, PhD Department of Chemistry; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "Synthetic biology for evolutionary studies and human health"
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 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.
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1:00 - 3:00 pm
This workshop is a 2-hour session that will introduce interactive Jupyter notebooks, particularly the web-hosted version provided by Illinois Computes Research Notebooks (ICRN) service.
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1:00 - 2:00 pm
Learn the advanced ways Illinois REDCap can be used to collect research data, including how to build or edit projects with a Data Dictionary, collecting data with repeatable instruments, and collecting longitudinal data with defined event.
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2:00 - 3:00 pmThis 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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3:00 - 5:00 pm223 Gregory Hall
While the second law of thermodynamics states that entropy increases over time, in some systems entropy decreases in parts of the system while increasing in others. A zebra resists or exploits the second law by shunting extra entropy into its environment. Philosopher Heather Demarest (University of Colorado, Boulder)
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5:00 - 6:00 pmJohn Deere Technology Innovation Center, 2021 S 1st Street
Join us for a John Deere Career Fair Prep Session on Tuesday, February 24 from 5 to 6 p.m
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
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All DayMain Library, 3rd Floor, Rooms 309 & 321
This exhibition presents a selection of Chinese nianhua and related images exploring Lunar New Year themes and the horse, offering a glimpse into the hopes, stories, and celebrations they carry. May you enjoy an energetic and fruitful year ahead.
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12:00 - 1:00 pmLincoln Hall, Lisnek LAS Hub
Current ATLAS Interns - Stop by to discussion your progress and any questions you have with an ATLAS Internship Program Coordinator. Prospective Students - Are you looking for internship experience working with technology? Stop by and learn more about opportunities in digital communication, data management/analysis, emerging technologies and more.
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
“Effect of PGC1α expression on mitochondrial biogenesis and pathogenesis in Fragile X syndrome” Vipendra Kumar Visiting Research Scientist, Prof. Nien-Pei Tsai’s lab Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Illinois
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 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.
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2:00 - 4:00 pmEnglish Building, Room 304
During this drop-in event, ATLAS staff will provide one-on-one guidance on digital accessibility and course content, helping faculty ensure their materials are inclusive, compliant, and ready for the new semester. Whether you’re updating your Canvas site, remediating documents, or just want to learn best practices, the ATLAS team will be there to assist.
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3:00 - 7:00 pmIllinois Conference Center (Heritage Hall), 1900 S. First St., Champaign, ILThe Research Park Career Fair is an opportunity for University of Illinois students to connect with Research Park employers and learn about on-campus internships and full-time job opportunities.
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4:00 - 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
Thursday, February 26, 2026
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All DayMain Library, 3rd Floor, Rooms 309 & 321
This exhibition presents a selection of Chinese nianhua and related images exploring Lunar New Year themes and the horse, offering a glimpse into the hopes, stories, and celebrations they carry. May you enjoy an energetic and fruitful year ahead.
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10:30 - 11:30 am
REDCap 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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11:00 amCharles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Associate Professor, Dept. of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
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12:00 - 1:00 pmEnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin us to learn more about campuswide MakerSpace resources on Thursday, February 26 from 12 to 1 p.m.
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12:00 - 1:30 pmThis session covers the review and scoring criteria for NIH proposals and the intricacies of the NIH peer review process. Participants will learn how to tailor their proposal to fit the NIH criteria.
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12:30 pm 1:30 pmSiebel Center for Design- Sunset Studio 1050
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12:30 pmNCSA Building, 1205 W. Clark St., Urbana IL 61801 Room 1040
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 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.
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3:00 - 5:00 pmMain Library, Room 346
Dr. Elias Petrou will explore the evolution and transmission of the Greek book from East to West, beginning with an overview of the Byzantine educational system, the preservation and transmission of classical Greek knowledge through manuscripts, and how this inherited book culture was transformed through the new technology of print.
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4:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 422Erin Brock Carlson’s research centers the relationships between place, technology, and power, focusing on how communities work together to address complex public problems through communication and community organizing. She uses community-based and participatory approaches in her research.
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4:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 422Erin Brock Carlson’s research centers the relationships between place, technology, and power, focusing on how communities work together to address complex public problems through communication and community organizing. She uses community-based and participatory approaches in her research.
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5:30 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana
Chicago-based artist Oscar Joyo will discuss his vivid and colorful public murals, underscoring the purpose of art and understanding the power of art to create narratives and tell stories about the history of place, the significance of the present, and the hopes for the future. He will also share details of his local engagement with students from Stratton Elementary School
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6:00 - 8:00 pmBruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center Multipurpose Room, 1212 W. Nevada Street, Urbana, ILJoin us for a film screening of The Edge of Each Other’s Battles (2002), a 59-minute documentary honoring Audre Lorde, followed by a facilitated discussion.
Friday, February 27, 2026
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All DayMain Library, 3rd Floor, Rooms 309 & 321
This exhibition presents a selection of Chinese nianhua and related images exploring Lunar New Year themes and the horse, offering a glimpse into the hopes, stories, and celebrations they carry. May you enjoy an energetic and fruitful year ahead.
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9:00 am - 12:00 pmMain Library Orange Room, or via Zoom
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12:00 - 1:00 pmEnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin us as Research Park Celebrates Black History Month on Friday, February 27 from 12 to 1 p.m.
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12:00 - 1:00 pmEnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin the Society of American Military Engineers on Friday, February 27 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
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12:30 - 1:30 pmSiebel 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!
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 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.
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1:30 - 3:00 pm306 Coble Hall
Join us for our HYBRID Brown Bag talk titled “Zhou Zuoren at Tiger Bridge” with Professor Jingling Chen from the East Asian Languages & Cultures Department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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11:55 pmPhD students in the humanities at Illinois: make an impact using your humanities training this summer through the Summer Bridge Program! Support a community organization in Champaign-Urbana while learning new skills and exploring new career paths.
Saturday, February 28, 2026
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All DayMain Library, 3rd Floor, Rooms 309 & 321
This exhibition presents a selection of Chinese nianhua and related images exploring Lunar New Year themes and the horse, offering a glimpse into the hopes, stories, and celebrations they carry. May you enjoy an energetic and fruitful year ahead.
Sunday, March 1, 2026
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All DayMain Library, 3rd Floor, Rooms 309 & 321
This exhibition presents a selection of Chinese nianhua and related images exploring Lunar New Year themes and the horse, offering a glimpse into the hopes, stories, and celebrations they carry. May you enjoy an energetic and fruitful year ahead.
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All DayOption for Grainger graduate students! The Graduate Concentration in Entrepreneurship and Innovation is now available to almost every admitted Grainger graduate student. Learn to tackle the business facets of industry-relevant problems and have these skills officially recognized on your transcript.
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2:00 pmState Farm CenterGrad Students, come cheer on the Fighting Illini women's basketball team at their last home game!
Monday, March 2, 2026
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All DayMain Library, 3rd Floor, Rooms 309 & 321
This exhibition presents a selection of Chinese nianhua and related images exploring Lunar New Year themes and the horse, offering a glimpse into the hopes, stories, and celebrations they carry. May you enjoy an energetic and fruitful year ahead.
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11:00 am - 1:00 pmLevis 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...
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12:00 - 4:00 pmInnovation 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.
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 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
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All DayMain Library, 3rd Floor, Rooms 309 & 321
This exhibition presents a selection of Chinese nianhua and related images exploring Lunar New Year themes and the horse, offering a glimpse into the hopes, stories, and celebrations they carry. May you enjoy an energetic and fruitful year ahead.
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9:00 am - 12:00 pmMain Library Orange Room, or via Zoom
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9:30 - 10:30 amEnglish 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!
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10:00 am - 12:00 pm
During this virtual, drop-in event, ATLAS staff will provide one-on-one guidance on digital accessibility and course content, helping faculty ensure their materials are inclusive, compliant, and ready for the new semester. Whether you’re updating your Canvas site, remediating documents, or just want to learn best practices, the ATLAS team will be there to assist.
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12:00 - 4:00 pmInnovation 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.
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12:00 pm612 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”
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 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.
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1:00 - 2:00 pmChampaign Public Library (Robeson Pavilion A/B) - 200 W. Green Street, Champaign, IL 61820Join 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.
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1:00 - 2:00 pmLearn 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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7:30 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 422This talk will highlight the Kinsey Institute’s founding and multi-disciplinary history, continued cultural impact, current research program, and reflect on the ways in which today’s social and political climate presents new challenges for multi-disciplinary sex research.
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7:30 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 422This talk will highlight the Kinsey Institute’s founding and multi-disciplinary history, continued cultural impact, current research program, and reflect on the ways in which today’s social and political climate presents new challenges for multi-disciplinary sex research.
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
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All DayMain Library, 3rd Floor, Rooms 309 & 321
This exhibition presents a selection of Chinese nianhua and related images exploring Lunar New Year themes and the horse, offering a glimpse into the hopes, stories, and celebrations they carry. May you enjoy an energetic and fruitful year ahead.
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12:00 - 1:00 pmLincoln Hall, Lisnek LAS Hub
Current ATLAS Interns - Stop by to discussion your progress and any questions you have with an ATLAS Internship Program Coordinator. Prospective Students - Are you looking for internship experience working with technology? Stop by and learn more about opportunities in digital communication, data management/analysis, emerging technologies and more.
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
“Targeted drug delivery to tumor associated macrophages in glioblastoma mouse models" Urbi Saha, PhD Student Department of Neuroscience, University of Illinois
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1:00 pmRoom 126, 501 E. Daniel StreetWayne A. Wiegand, the F. William Summers Professor of Library and Information Studies Emeritus at Florida State University, will present "Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Missing Stories in American Library History. A reception will follow the lecture.
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 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.
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2:00 - 4:00 pmEnglish Building, Room 304
During this drop-in event, ATLAS staff will provide one-on-one guidance on digital accessibility and course content, helping faculty ensure their materials are inclusive, compliant, and ready for the new semester. Whether you’re updating your Canvas site, remediating documents, or just want to learn best practices, the ATLAS team will be there to assist.
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3:30 - 5:00 pmLevis Faculty Center 300The Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity and the Humanities Research Institute host the annual campus celebration of International Women's Day with “12 Women Who Changed the World: Untold Stories.”
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3:30 - 5:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 300The Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity and the Humanities Research Institute host the annual campus celebration of International Women's Day with “12 Women Who Changed the World: Untold Stories.”
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4:00 - 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
Thursday, March 5, 2026
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All DayMain Library, 3rd Floor, Rooms 309 & 321
This exhibition presents a selection of Chinese nianhua and related images exploring Lunar New Year themes and the horse, offering a glimpse into the hopes, stories, and celebrations they carry. May you enjoy an energetic and fruitful year ahead.
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All DayLevis Faculty Center 210The 24th annual Women’s and Gender History Symposium at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will take place March 5-7, 2026. This year’s theme is Gender and Labor. This year's conference will feature graduate research and keynote speakers Dr. Arunima Datta and Dr. Eric McDuffie.
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10:30 - 11:30 am
REDCap 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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11:00 am - 12:15 pmRoom 4045, 614 E. Daniel Street & ZoomJoel Waldfogel will present "AI and the quantity and quality of creative products: have LLMs boosted creation of valuable books?" as part of the AImpact Speaker Series.
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12:00 - 1:30 pmYour grant went through peer review, but didn’t get funded. Now what? This session will address how to respond to the reviewers’ comments, interpret critiques, and use feedback from reviewers or mentors to improve your grant proposal.
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12:30 pm 1:30 pmSiebel Center for Design- Sunset Studio 1050
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 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.
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1:00 - 2:00 pmGet 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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2:00 - 3:00 pmLearn how to improve the accessibility of your Moodle material by working hands-on with the new FACT Accessibility Checker developed by ATLAS.
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4:00 - 5:00 pmIllini Union Bookstore room 514
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6:00 - 7:30 pmKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
SPEAK stands for Song, Poetry, Art, and Knowledge. It is an open-mic public performance space at Krannert Art Museum curated by local artist, Shaya Robinson, featuring guest performers and welcoming all to the mic. *Parking nearby is free after 5 pm and on weekends.*
Friday, March 6, 2026
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All DayMain Library, 3rd Floor, Rooms 309 & 321
This exhibition presents a selection of Chinese nianhua and related images exploring Lunar New Year themes and the horse, offering a glimpse into the hopes, stories, and celebrations they carry. May you enjoy an energetic and fruitful year ahead.
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9:00 am - 12:00 pmMain Library Orange Room, or via Zoom
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Professor Bharat Mehra, University of Alabama, on "From Trauma, Anxieties, and Dislocation at Intersecting Margins in a South Asian Experience and Beyond to Social Justice: “If Life Gives You Bananas Make Mango Shake”
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12:30 - 1:30 pmSiebel 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!
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 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.
Saturday, March 7, 2026
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All DayMain Library, 3rd Floor, Rooms 309 & 321
This exhibition presents a selection of Chinese nianhua and related images exploring Lunar New Year themes and the horse, offering a glimpse into the hopes, stories, and celebrations they carry. May you enjoy an energetic and fruitful year ahead.
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8:30 amLevis Faculty Center, Room 210This 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.
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8:30 amLevis Faculty Center, Room 210This 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.
Sunday, March 8, 2026
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All DayMain Library, 3rd Floor, Rooms 309 & 321
This exhibition presents a selection of Chinese nianhua and related images exploring Lunar New Year themes and the horse, offering a glimpse into the hopes, stories, and celebrations they carry. May you enjoy an energetic and fruitful year ahead.
Monday, March 9, 2026
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All DayMain Library, 3rd Floor, Rooms 309 & 321
This exhibition presents a selection of Chinese nianhua and related images exploring Lunar New Year themes and the horse, offering a glimpse into the hopes, stories, and celebrations they carry. May you enjoy an energetic and fruitful year ahead.
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12:00 - 4:00 pmInnovation 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.
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 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.
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3:00 - 4:00 pmEnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, ChampaignJoin 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.
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3:00 - 4:00 pmIllini Union Bookstore room 504
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4:00 - 6:00 pmEnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, Champaign, ILResearch Park and the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation invite you to join us for the AgTech Week Happy Hour.
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5:00 - 7:00 pmAlice 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.
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5:00 - 7:00 pmAlice 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
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All DayMain Library, 3rd Floor, Rooms 309 & 321
This exhibition presents a selection of Chinese nianhua and related images exploring Lunar New Year themes and the horse, offering a glimpse into the hopes, stories, and celebrations they carry. May you enjoy an energetic and fruitful year ahead.
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8:30 am - 6:00 pmIllinois Conference Center, 1900 S. First St., Champaign, ILOne 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.
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8:30 - 11:30 amIlini Union, Room ALearn to develop research dissemination plans for your community-engaged research projects with actionable approaches to communicating findings in ways that are responsive, accessible, and meaningful to the communities they serve.
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9:00 am - 12:00 pmMain Library Orange Room, or via Zoom
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9:30 - 10:30 amEnglish 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!
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11:00 am - 12:30 pmIn 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.
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12:00 - 4:00 pmInnovation 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.
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 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.
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3:00 - 4:00 pmGet 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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5:00 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. GregoryIngrid 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
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All DayMain Library, 3rd Floor, Rooms 309 & 321
This exhibition presents a selection of Chinese nianhua and related images exploring Lunar New Year themes and the horse, offering a glimpse into the hopes, stories, and celebrations they carry. May you enjoy an energetic and fruitful year ahead.
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9:00 - 10:00 amCharles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102 -
12:00 - 1:00 pmLincoln Hall, Lisnek LAS Hub
Current ATLAS Interns - Stop by to discussion your progress and any questions you have with an ATLAS Internship Program Coordinator. Prospective Students - Are you looking for internship experience working with technology? Stop by and learn more about opportunities in digital communication, data management/analysis, emerging technologies and more.
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 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.
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3:30 - 5:00 pmGregory Hall 319
Join us for a lecture with Jennifer Chuong, an assistant professor in the Department of Art History at the U of I. This lecture examines the invention of carborundum mezzotint by the African American artist Dox Thrash (1893-1965), arguing that the technique's significance lies not only in its aesthetic effects but in the labor surrounding its discovery and production.
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4:00 pmCarle's Mills Cancer Center, 3rd floor conference room
Illinois' Georgia Malandraki and Brad Sutton will present, "Multimodal Approaches to Understanding Swallowing Control and Developing Plasticity Based Interventions for Dysphagia."
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7:00 - 10:00 pmVirginia Theatre (203 W Park Ave, Champaign, IL 61820)Illinois Public Media and the Japan House present KOKUHO (2025). Kokuho, meaning "National Treasure," is a highly successful 2025 Japanese epic film by director Sang-il Lee about the intense, decades-long rivalry between two men destined for greatness in the traditional world of Kabuki theater.
Thursday, March 12, 2026
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All DayMain Library, 3rd Floor, Rooms 309 & 321
This exhibition presents a selection of Chinese nianhua and related images exploring Lunar New Year themes and the horse, offering a glimpse into the hopes, stories, and celebrations they carry. May you enjoy an energetic and fruitful year ahead.
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10:30 - 11:30 am
REDCap 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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11:00 am - 1:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 208 919 W. Illinois St, Urbana
We are delighted to showcase the work of some of our most productive and creative faculty in this informal series of intellectually and spiritually invigorating presentations. You are invited to drop in when you can to learn about the exciting projects undertaken by our faculty.
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 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.
Friday, March 13, 2026
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All DayMain Library, 3rd Floor, Rooms 309 & 321
This exhibition presents a selection of Chinese nianhua and related images exploring Lunar New Year themes and the horse, offering a glimpse into the hopes, stories, and celebrations they carry. May you enjoy an energetic and fruitful year ahead.
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9:00 - 10:00 amEnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveStartup companies and their employees who work within the EnterpriseWorks building are invited to join us for networking and breakfast from 9 to 10 AM on the first Friday of every month.
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9:00 am - 12:00 pmMain Library Orange Room, or via Zoom
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12:00 - 1:00 pmEnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin the Data + AI User Group on Friday, March 13 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
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12:30 - 1:30 pmSiebel 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!
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 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.
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3:00 - 4:00 pmGet up to speed quickly on making your MS Excel spreadsheets accessible for everyone! In this hands-on workshop, we’ll start with a brief overview of common accessibility challenges and solutions in Excel. By the end of this workshop, you’ll be well on your way to creating inclusive spreadsheets that meet State and Federal accessibility standards.
Saturday, March 14, 2026
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All DayMain Library, 3rd Floor, Rooms 309 & 321
This exhibition presents a selection of Chinese nianhua and related images exploring Lunar New Year themes and the horse, offering a glimpse into the hopes, stories, and celebrations they carry. May you enjoy an energetic and fruitful year ahead.
Sunday, March 15, 2026
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All DayMain Library, 3rd Floor, Rooms 309 & 321
This exhibition presents a selection of Chinese nianhua and related images exploring Lunar New Year themes and the horse, offering a glimpse into the hopes, stories, and celebrations they carry. May you enjoy an energetic and fruitful year ahead.
Monday, March 16, 2026
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9:00 am - 12:00 pmMain Library Orange Room, or via Zoom
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12:00 - 4:00 pmInnovation 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.
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 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 17, 2026
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9:00 am - 12:00 pmMain Library Orange Room, or via Zoom
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10:00 - 11:00 amDocuments 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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12:00 - 4:00 pmInnovation 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.
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 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
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9:00 am - 12:00 pmMain Library Orange Room, or via Zoom
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12:00 - 1:00 pmLincoln Hall, Lisnek LAS Hub
Current ATLAS Interns - Stop by to discussion your progress and any questions you have with an ATLAS Internship Program Coordinator. Prospective Students - Are you looking for internship experience working with technology? Stop by and learn more about opportunities in digital communication, data management/analysis, emerging technologies and more.
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 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.
Thursday, March 19, 2026
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 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.
Friday, March 20, 2026
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10:00 - 11:00 amGet 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
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12:00 - 1:00 pmEnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, ChampaignThis is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.
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12:30 - 1:30 pmSiebel 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!
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 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.
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3:00 - 4:00 pmGet 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
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1:00 pmRiggs Beer Company, 1901 S High Cross Rd, Urbana, IL 61802Science 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
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12:00 - 4:00 pmInnovation 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.
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 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
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9:00 am - 12:00 pmMain Library Orange Room, or via Zoom
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9:30 - 10:30 amEnglish 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!
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10:00 - 11:00 amGet 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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12:00 - 4:00 pmInnovation 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.
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 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.
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2:00 - 3:00 pmThis 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
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10:00 - 11:00 amJoin us on Wednesday, March 25 from 10 to 11 a.m. for a webinar on Best Practices in New Hire Onboarding.
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Please join Library Trends for a thoughtful discussion on how the intersection of technology and reality is reshaping the roles of librarians in education. The guest editors and authors of select articles from 74 (3), "Data Literacy: Navigating the Shift from Hype to Reality" will be presenting their research.
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11:30 am - 1:00 pmVirtual via Zoom
CITL's Master Course in Online Teaching (MCOT) is a deep dive into online teaching strategies that extends what was presented during previous teaching academies. Prior participation in an instructional development series is not required but professional experience with university level instruction is strongly encouraged.
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12:00 - 1:00 pmLincoln Hall, Lisnek LAS Hub
Current ATLAS Interns - Stop by to discussion your progress and any questions you have with an ATLAS Internship Program Coordinator. Prospective Students - Are you looking for internship experience working with technology? Stop by and learn more about opportunities in digital communication, data management/analysis, emerging technologies and more.
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12:00 - 1:30 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W. Illinois St
CAS Associate 2024-25 Merle Bowen (African American Studies) discusses her research that brings to light untold stories of African-descended communities in Atlantic Canada. With support from the Center for African Studies and the Department of African American Studies.
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Oraya Zinder, PhD Candidate Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 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.
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4:00 - 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
Thursday, March 26, 2026
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10:30 - 11:30 am
REDCap 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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12:30 pm 1:30 pmSiebel Center for Design- Sunset Studio 1050
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 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.
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3:00 - 5:00 pmMain Library, Room 346
From its invention in the Bronze Age, glass was conceived as “molten stone” and continuously used to emulate gems, gold, and rare marbles. Drawing on archaeological finds, representations in art works, and written sources, Dr. Anastasios Antonaras (Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki,)
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3:00 - 4:30 pmGet 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
Friday, March 27, 2026
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9:00 am - 12:00 pmMain Library Orange Room, or via Zoom
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9:00 am - 5:00 pmLevis Faculty Center 210
HGMS annual conference, 9a-5pm. Location TBD.
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9:00 am - 5:00 pmLevis Faculty Center 210
Please join us for the seventh annual symposium in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies. The past annual symposia were wonderful, and we hope that this conference will continue to showcase diverse and brilliant work within memory studies (broadly conceived) of graduate students. The keynote will be at 11am by Solomon Brager, author of Heavyweight.
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12:00 - 1:00 pmEnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin the Society of American Military Engineers on Friday, March 27 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
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12:30 - 1:30 pmSiebel 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!
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 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.
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3:00 - 4:00 pmGet up to speed quickly on making your Microsoft Excel spreadsheets accessible for everyone! In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to prevent reading and navigating order culprits, freeze columns and rows, hide unused columns and rows, delete empty rows between elements, create accessible links, and use the Accessibility Assistant.
Monday, March 30, 2026
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12:00 - 4:00 pmInnovation 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.
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12:00 - 1:30 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 424This 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. Bring your lunch and stop by to listen and chat!
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12:00 - 1:30 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 424This 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. Bring your lunch and stop by to listen and chat!
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1:00 - 2:30 pm
Learn to use multi-language management (MLM), the module that allows a single REDCap project to be created, maintained, and delivered in multiple languages without having to build and maintain separate projects for each language.
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 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.
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4:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210Story & Place event series: Anke Pinkert Book Talk 4pm
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4:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210Story & Place event series: Anke Pinkert Book Talk
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
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All DayGrainger Engineering undergrads - consider a dual degree! Your primary degree + the ILEE degree.
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9:00 am - 12:00 pmMain Library Orange Room, or via Zoom
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9:30 - 10:30 amEnglish 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!
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12:00 - 4:00 pmInnovation 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.
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 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.
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2:00 - 3:30 pmThis hands-on workshop covers what makes digital chemistry accessible for all learners. Topics covered include chemical equations, opportunities and limits of accessible math tools for chemistry, choosing an accessible periodic table, and writing description for common general chemistry diagrams. See full description for details and free software requirements.
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2:00 - 4:30 pmLearn to craft a compelling fellowship proposal.
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3:00 - 5:00 pmLearn to craft a compelling fellowship proposal.