Seminars of Interest
Thursday, November 12, 2026
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Canvas open office hours
RecurringCITL's Instructional Support Team is hosting open office hours for Canvas support, training, and consultation. Please join us at https://illinois.zoom.us/j/85970622537?pwd=ZFlUZHk5K09ZQjZXZTN0MFFHcUFhZz09 with your Canvas questions.

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

Friday, November 13, 2026
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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

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Master the art of the personal statement.

Saturday, November 14, 2026
Monday, November 16, 2026
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"Computational development of novel therapeutics for precision oncology" Daniel P. Wickland, PhD Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics Senior Associate Consultant in the Division of Computational Biology Mayo Clinic

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

Tuesday, November 17, 2026
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Come enjoy coffee, say hello to colleagues and bring your houseplants to swap. We may occasionally meet elsewhere in the building — watch for signs in the atrium with more information.

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Beckman Core Facilities Tech Talk

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Dr. Lawrence David, PhD Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology; Duke University "Decoding Diet Using Genomics"

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

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

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Humanities Career Discovery Group
RecurringWork together to explore what comes next

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Illinois undergraduates from all majors are invited to learn about the 2027 Community-Academic Scholars program and I-SUMMER. Scholars receive a $4,500 stipend while working with an academic mentor and community partner on a 10-week research project. No prior research experience is required.

Wednesday, November 18, 2026
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“Using the Axioscan and ImageJ to Examine How Dietary Fiber Influences Stress-Induced HPA Axis and Microglial Activation” Jordan Rindels, Ph.D Student Gut-Microbiota Communication Lab, Division of Nutritional Sciences University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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

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

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Canvas open office hours
RecurringCITL's Instructional Support Team is hosting open office hours for Canvas support, training, and consultation. Please join us at https://illinois.zoom.us/j/85970622537?pwd=ZFlUZHk5K09ZQjZXZTN0MFFHcUFhZz09 with your Canvas questions.

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Dr. DeLisa Fairweather, MD, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, will speak on "The Yin and Yang of EVs in Myocardial Inflammation"

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

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Learn to craft a compelling fellowship proposal.

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Join other members of the Beckman community for coffee and cookies in the Beckman Atrium. The Cookie Collab is scheduled for 3 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month.

Friday, November 20, 2026
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PRESENTER Karen Tabb Dina, PhD Professor and Mark Brandt Faculty Scholar School of Social Work University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign TITLE Maternal Mental Health and Maternal-Infant Outcomes DATE Nov. 20, 2026 TIME 11 a.m. LOCATION 180 Bevier Hall

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

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Get up to speed quickly on making your 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.

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

Tuesday, November 24, 2026
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Get up to speed on using the Pope Tech Canvas Accessibility Guide to make Canvas pages more accessible for everyone! In this hands-on workshop, we’ll start with an overview of the Pope Tech Canvas Accessibility Guide, how it functions, what the various errors, alerts, structural elements, and features mean, and how to fix these issues on a Canvas page.

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

Thursday, November 26, 2026
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Canvas open office hours
RecurringCITL's Instructional Support Team is hosting open office hours for Canvas support, training, and consultation. Please join us at https://illinois.zoom.us/j/85970622537?pwd=ZFlUZHk5K09ZQjZXZTN0MFFHcUFhZz09 with your Canvas questions.

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

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

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

Tuesday, December 1, 2026
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Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Gather in the Garden will take place every Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.

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"Engineering stomata for improved water use efficiency" Tracy Lawson, PhD Department of Plant Biology, School of Integrative Biology Co-leader, IGB Photosynthesis & Food Security Research Theme University Of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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

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

Wednesday, December 2, 2026
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“Vision and plans for the Advanced Microscopy and Diagnostics Facility” Subha Srinivasan Associate Director for Research & Operations Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Thursday, December 3, 2026
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Canvas open office hours
RecurringCITL's Instructional Support Team is hosting open office hours for Canvas support, training, and consultation. Please join us at https://illinois.zoom.us/j/85970622537?pwd=ZFlUZHk5K09ZQjZXZTN0MFFHcUFhZz09 with your Canvas questions.

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

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Get up to speed quickly on creating accessible documents, presentations, and spreadsheets natively in the Google Workspace. In this hands-on workshop, you'll practice accessible authoring methods natively in Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets before using Grackle Suite to evaluate and remediate common Google document accessibility barriers.

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An overview of the industry/nonprofit job search

Friday, December 4, 2026
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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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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

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Get up to speed quickly on making your Microsoft 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, December 7, 2026
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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

Tuesday, December 8, 2026
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Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Gather in the Garden will take place every Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.

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Terence Capellini, PhD Professor and Chair of Human Evolutionary Biology; Harvard University “The Regulation of Human Skeletal Development and Musculoskeletal Disease Risk”

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

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

Wednesday, December 9, 2026
Thursday, December 10, 2026
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The Beckman Town hall is scheduled for 11 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 10. It will be followed by Beckman's holiday lunch and party in the atrium from noon to 2 p.m.

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Canvas open office hours
RecurringCITL's Instructional Support Team is hosting open office hours for Canvas support, training, and consultation. Please join us at https://illinois.zoom.us/j/85970622537?pwd=ZFlUZHk5K09ZQjZXZTN0MFFHcUFhZz09 with your Canvas questions.

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

Friday, December 11, 2026
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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

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

Tuesday, December 15, 2026
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Get up to speed quickly on making your PowerPoint presentations accessible for everyone while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll begin with a brief overview of common accessibility challenges in PowerPoint and then dive straight into practical solutions.

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

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

Wednesday, December 16, 2026
Thursday, December 17, 2026
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Get up to speed quickly on making your Microsoft Word documents accessible for everyone while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll start with a brief overview of common accessibility challenges in Word and then jump right into practice.

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Canvas open office hours
RecurringCITL's Instructional Support Team is hosting open office hours for Canvas support, training, and consultation. Please join us at https://illinois.zoom.us/j/85970622537?pwd=ZFlUZHk5K09ZQjZXZTN0MFFHcUFhZz09 with your Canvas questions.

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

Friday, December 18, 2026
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Get up to speed on using the Pope Tech Canvas Accessibility Guide to make Canvas pages more accessible for everyone! In this hands-on workshop, we’ll start with an overview of the Pope Tech Canvas Accessibility Guide, how it functions, what the various errors, alerts, structural elements, and features mean, and how to fix these issues on a Canvas page.

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

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

Tuesday, December 22, 2026
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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

Thursday, December 24, 2026
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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

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

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

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

Wednesday, December 30, 2026
Thursday, December 31, 2026
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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.















