Seminars of Interest
Monday, January 20, 2025
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
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Learn the accessibility requirements for making your Canvas courses accessible. This hands-on workshop will cover using the Canvas editor to create navigable pages, writing effective alt text description for images, charts, and graphs, ensuring readable color contrast, creating accessible tables and links, and using Canvas accessibility tools to fix common issues.
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Join us at noon on Wednesdays this spring for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!
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Welcome to the Beckman Institute! In this onboarding session, new Beckman faculty and affiliates will learn from Associate Director for Research Cristina Álvarez-Mingote what Beckman Institute services are available, who to contact with questions, and how to be a collaborative and fully engaged member of the Beckman community.
Thursday, January 23, 2025
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Instructor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Adult Neurology
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Get help with data visualization at the Vis Lab's office hours from 1-3 p.m. Thursdays in 2203 Beckman Institute.
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Learn to craft a compelling fellowship proposal.
Friday, January 24, 2025
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This mini conference will connect Illinois researchers studying aging.
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Beckman Director Steve Maren will be hosting a weekly Director’s Coffee Hour at 9 a.m. on Fridays at one of the nearby coffee shops (the Daily Byte or Espresso Royale) until the Beckman Café reopens. It's a great opportunity to get to know your new director and for him to get to know you and your research. Steve's buying! Please contact Stacy for details on meeting Steve
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Join us from 3-4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 24, in the Beckman Atrium to unwind with Bree, our new visiting therapy dog! All are welcome to take a moment to destress, relax and recharge with Bree's calming presence.
Saturday, January 25, 2025
Sunday, January 26, 2025
Monday, January 27, 2025
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
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LaKisha David, PhD Department of Anthropology; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Reconstructing Extended Genetic Genealogies: Applications of the Bonsai Tree Algorithm in Genomic Data Analysis"
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Learn the accessibility requirements for videos for your departmental or course videos and audio files. This training will cover video accessibility requirements, designing videos with accessibility in mind, captioning, audio descriptions, and transcripts, as well as what to look for when choosing software or a vendor for in-house or outsourced captioning.
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
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Learning communities are a powerful way for people to come together to achieve common learning goals. However, fostering conditions that promote an online community for shared learning and knowledge construction can be daunting to even the most experienced facilitators. Please join us as we discuss effective ways to establish and grow productive online learning communities
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Join us at noon on Wednesdays this spring for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!
Thursday, January 30, 2025
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Teaching With AI Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way we learn, work, and think. Its integration into classrooms and workplaces is already underway, impacting and challenging ideas about creativity, authorship, and education. In this groundbreaking and practical guide, teachers will discover how to harness and manage AI as a powerful teaching tool.
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Get help with data visualization at the Vis Lab's office hours from 1-3 p.m. Thursdays in 2203 Beckman Institute.
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In this workshop, we'll explore the basics of learning and memory, and identify what we can do as teachers to help our students learn and remember course material.
Friday, January 31, 2025
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Beckman Director Steve Maren will be hosting a weekly Director’s Coffee Hour at 9 a.m. on Fridays at one of the nearby coffee shops (the Daily Byte or Espresso Royale) until the Beckman Café reopens. It's a great opportunity to get to know your new director and for him to get to know you and your research. Steve's buying! Please contact Stacy for details on meeting Steve
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Learn the basics of gen AI text models, such as Microsoft Copilot and Chat GPT, and use them to improve your workflow, teaching aid creation, and more.
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Join us over coffee and snacks to connect with women engineering students!
Monday, February 3, 2025
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
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Come to this workshop to learn how to design, implement, and interpret Informal Early Feedback (IEF) to improve the class experience for everyone.
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
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Join us at noon on Wednesdays this spring for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!
Thursday, February 6, 2025
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Researchers from the University of Illinois, Inha University, and Ewha Women’s University are invited to present their work on AI-Based Assistive Technology for Communication, Inclusive Design for Digital Accessibility, and related topics of research
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Come find out more about the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology! Learn about the barrier-busting interdisciplinary research facility and community of innovation. First Thursday of the month from 10-10:30 a.m.
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Get help with data visualization at the Vis Lab's office hours from 1-3 p.m. Thursdays in 2203 Beckman Institute.
Friday, February 7, 2025
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Researchers from the University of Illinois, Inha University, and Ewha Women’s University are invited to present their work on AI-Based Assistive Technology for Communication, Inclusive Design for Digital Accessibility, and related topics of research
Monday, February 10, 2025
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
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Jennifer Guerriero, PhD Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Breast Cancer Program, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center; Harvard Immunology, Harvard Medical School "Harnessing macrophages in advanced breast cancer to combat drug-resistance"
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
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Reflecting and implementing what you have learned from informal student feedback, such as IEF, and formal student feedback, such as ICES, is a valuable process and part of our campus efforts to document teaching excellence. We will share how to maximize gathering and analyzing the formal and informal student feedback.
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Join us at noon on Wednesdays this spring for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!
Thursday, February 13, 2025
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Teaching With AI Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way we learn, work, and think. Its integration into classrooms and workplaces is already underway, impacting and challenging ideas about creativity, authorship, and education. In this groundbreaking and practical guide, teachers will discover how to harness and manage AI as a powerful teaching tool.
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Get help with data visualization at the Vis Lab's office hours from 1-3 p.m. Thursdays in 2203 Beckman Institute.
Saturday, February 15, 2025
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The UIUC Student Chapter of NOBCChE is hosting the Spring 2025 St. Elmo Brady Symposium. The keynote speaker is Segun Victor Obisesan, Ph.D., who is a Research, Development, & Innovation Chemist at Evonik Corporation. The St. Elmo Brady Lecture Series is held each semester to honor Illinois chemistry alumnus St. Elmo Brady (PhD, ’16).
Sunday, February 16, 2025
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Grad Students, come cheer on the Fighting Illini women's basketball team at their last home game!
Monday, February 17, 2025
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
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Documents must be proactively accessible for all students. This hands-on workshop will cover what to look for and several tools to help you find and fix issues. You’ll learn how to scan multiple document types for accessibility issues and remediate them.
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
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Disruptive student behaviors can present serious challenges to a positive learning environment. These challenging situations can occur in both face-to-face and online learning contexts. In this workshop you will learn effective strategies to deal with challenging situations and maintain the focus of your classroom on productive learning.
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
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Our students are facing increasingly more complex problems whose solutions cannot be readily found in textbooks. Our responsibility is then to enable our students to approach issues through an inquiry-based instructional model in tackling authentic real-world problems. By using a Problem-based learning (PBL) model, we can help students in more creative brainstorming and hy
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Join us at noon on Wednesdays this spring for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!
Thursday, February 20, 2025
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Get help with data visualization at the Vis Lab's office hours from 1-3 p.m. Thursdays in 2203 Beckman Institute.
Friday, February 21, 2025
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Beckman Director Steve Maren will be hosting a weekly Director’s Coffee Hour at 9 a.m. on Fridays at one of the nearby coffee shops (the Daily Byte or Espresso Royale) until the Beckman Café reopens. It's a great opportunity to get to know your new director and for him to get to know you and your research. Steve's buying! Please contact Stacy for details on meeting Steve
Saturday, February 22, 2025
Monday, February 24, 2025
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
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An important learning goal is for our students to think critically and to create imaginatively. Offering multimedia assignments integrating various media formats such as text, images, audio, and videos into cohesive projects. In this session, we will share the creative multimedia assignments that your colleagues developed to innovatively assess student learning.
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Join us at noon on Wednesdays this spring for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!
Thursday, February 27, 2025
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Teaching With AI Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way we learn, work, and think. Its integration into classrooms and workplaces is already underway, impacting and challenging ideas about creativity, authorship, and education. In this groundbreaking and practical guide, teachers will discover how to harness and manage AI as a powerful teaching tool.
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Get help with data visualization at the Vis Lab's office hours from 1-3 p.m. Thursdays in 2203 Beckman Institute.
Friday, February 28, 2025
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Illinois faculty involved in community-engaged research are invited to the next Community-Engaged Research Series event for an interactive workshop on unpacking projects into multiple publications, followed by a working lunch on building equitable partnerships. Register by Feb. 21.
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Beckman Director Steve Maren will be hosting a weekly Director’s Coffee Hour at 9 a.m. on Fridays at one of the nearby coffee shops (the Daily Byte or Espresso Royale) until the Beckman Café reopens. It's a great opportunity to get to know your new director and for him to get to know you and your research. Steve's buying! Please contact Stacy for details on meeting Steve
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Join us over coffee and snacks to connect with women engineering students!