Fall 08
Monday, February 24, 2025
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Comportments of Kurdish Pleasure: Interjecting Leisure as a Necessary Archive with Dr. Stan Thangaraj Monday, February 24 | 3:00-4:30 PM | Davenport Hall 230
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
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Beth M. Stadtmueller, PhD Assistant Professor of Biochemistry Biomedical & Translational Sciences, Carle Illinois College of Medicine University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Mining for anti-infectious Molecules from Genomes Research Theme "Investigating and engineering the structures and functions of Secretory Antibodies"
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Palestine in the World Lecture Series: Why Is Palestine Important? by Dr. Ussama Makdisi February 25 at 4 pm at 1000 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St, Urbana
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
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28th Daniel S. Sanders Annual Peace & Social Justice Lecture: "Why Refugee-Led Organizations Must Be At The Forefront of Leading Change". Guest Lecturer: Mr. Robert Hakiza, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Young African Refugees for Integral Development (YARID). February 26th, 2025 at Hilton Garden Inn, 1501 S Neil St, Champaign, IL 12 pm - 3:15 pm.
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"Optimization of In Vitro Reservoir Computing informed by Volume Electron Microscopy and Simulation" Andrew Dou, Graduate Research Assistant, Mechanical Science & Engineering
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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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"Data Feminism: by Catherine D'lgnazio and Lauren Klein. The discussion will be led by GRID Students Mahbubeh Moqadam and Marwah Malik. Wednesday, Feb 12th and 26th, from 2:00-3:30 pm CST via Zoom Register and Request at: https://forms.illinois.edu/sec/1134466534.
Thursday, February 27, 2025
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Brazilian Women Defenders of the Amazon: Virtual Talk February 27, 2025 | 3 -4:30 pm CST | Zoom The Brazilian social leaders will share their experiences in protecting the Amazon, the challenges they face, and the context in which they live.
Friday, February 28, 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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Friday Forum + Conversation Cafe: Breaking Chains, Building Communities: The Story of the AME Church
Friday Forum + Conversation Cafe Breaking Chains, Building Communities: The Story of the AME Church by Rev. Terrance Thomas, Bethel AME Church February 28, 2025 12:00 pm -1:00 pm (CST) University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign
Saturday, March 1, 2025
Monday, March 3, 2025
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
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Funmilayo Ransom Kuti Film Discussion Tuesday | March 4 | 6:30-8:00pm CST | via Zoom Discussion led by: Adetutu Faburoso, Ph.D Student in Human Resource Development (HDR) and minor in Gender Relations and International Development (GRID)
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
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"Illuminating Brain Circuit Architectures" Xiaotang Lu, Assistant Professor, Chemistry
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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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The Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program (WGGP) and the Humanities Research Institute (HRI) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are co-hosting our eighth annual event, “11 Women Who Changed the World: Untold Stories” bringing together faculty, staff, students, and community members to recognize people who have made a difference in academia.
Thursday, March 6, 2025
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"Web Hosting" David Slater, CNRG Associate Director of High Performance Computing
Friday, March 7, 2025
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Friday Forum + Conversation Cafe Defending Immigrants under a Trump Administration: An Immigrant Advocate's Perspective by Diana Rashid, Berkeley Public Interest Law Fellow and Attorney, National Immigrant Justice Center, in conversation with current La Colectiva students March 7, 2025 | 12:00 pm -1:00 pm (CST) | University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign
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GRID Student Forum featuring graduate student research projects March 7, 12 pm - 3 pm via Zoom.
Saturday, March 8, 2025
Sunday, March 9, 2025
Monday, March 10, 2025
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All are welcome to join our weekly 10-10:30 a.m. Tuesday gather in the atrium sessions. Please feel free to bring your own favorite beverage and enjoy the company!
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
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All are welcome to join our weekly 10-10:30 a.m. Tuesday gather in the atrium sessions. Please feel free to bring your own favorite beverage and enjoy the company!
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Alanna Schepartz, PhD T.Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Chair in Chemistry; University of California, Berkeley "Expanding the Functional Proteome"
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
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"Software and Data Analysis in the IGB Core Facilities" Austin Cyphersmith, Assistant Director for Research Instrumentation, Core Facilities Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
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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, March 13, 2025
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Dr. Jog, Associate Research Scientist in the Wetland Science Program at the Prairie Research Institute will present “Using plants to understand wetland health.” March 13 | 12 pm - 1 pm (CTS) | Main Library Room 146, or over zoom
Friday, March 14, 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, March 15, 2025
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
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All are welcome to join our weekly 10-10:30 a.m. Tuesday gather in the atrium sessions. Please feel free to bring your own favorite beverage and enjoy the company!
Wednesday, March 19, 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!
Friday, March 21, 2025
Monday, March 24, 2025
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Topics to be covered include information about the Churchill, Fulbright, Gates Cambridge, George Mitchell, Knight-Hennessy, Luce Scholars, Marshall, Rhodes, and Schwarzman programs and how to apply for these scholarship opportunities. For more information, contact the scholarships office at topscholars@illinois.edu or visit our website at www.topscholars.illinois.edu
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
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Topics to be covered include information about the Churchill, Fulbright, Gates Cambridge, George Mitchell, Knight-Hennessy, Luce Scholars, Marshall, Rhodes, and Schwarzman programs and how to apply for these scholarship opportunities. For more information, contact the scholarships office at topscholars@illinois.edu or visit our website at www.topscholars.illinois.edu
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All are welcome to join our weekly 10-10:30 a.m. Tuesday gather in the atrium sessions. Please feel free to bring your own favorite beverage and enjoy the company!
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Sabrina C. Agarwal, PhD Professor and Chair Department of Anthropology University of California, Berkeley "What Remains: Postcolonial Legacies of the Anatomical and Anthropological Sciences"
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Storytelling Workshop with Latoya Ruby Frazier Tuesday, March 25, 2025, UA Local 149 Plumbers and Pipefitters, 1003 N Dunlap Ave, Savoy, Illinois Workshop 5-7pm Dinner 7-9pm
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
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"Decoding 12 million years of Amazonian plant diversity using zero-shot segmentation and classification of fossil pollen on microscope slides" Surangi W. Punyasena, Professor - Plant Biology Sandeep Puthanveetil Satheesan, Sr. Research Software Engineer - Supercomputing Applications; Shu Kong
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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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Topics to be covered include information about the Churchill, Fulbright, Gates Cambridge, George Mitchell, Knight-Hennessy, Luce Scholars, Marshall, Rhodes, and Schwarzman programs and how to apply for these scholarship opportunities. For more information, contact the scholarships office at topscholars@illinois.edu or visit our website at www.topscholars.illinois.edu
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Art as Transformation: Using Photography for Social Change by Latoya Ruby Frazier March 26, 5 pm -6 pm Plym Auditorium, Temple Buell Hall
Thursday, March 27, 2025
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Topics to be covered include information about the Churchill, Fulbright, Gates Cambridge, George Mitchell, Knight-Hennessy, Luce Scholars, Marshall, Rhodes, and Schwarzman programs and how to apply for these scholarship opportunities. For more information, contact the scholarships office at topscholars@illinois.edu or visit our website at www.topscholars.illinois.edu
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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, March 28, 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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Friday Forum + Conversation Cafe Plumas Negras by Juliette Carrillo, University of Illinois Department of Theater March 28, 2025 12:00 pm -1:00 pm (CST) University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign
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Topics to be covered include information about the Churchill, Fulbright, Gates Cambridge, George Mitchell, Knight-Hennessy, Luce Scholars, Marshall, Rhodes, and Schwarzman programs and how to apply for these scholarship opportunities. For more information, contact the scholarships office at topscholars@illinois.edu or visit our website at www.topscholars.illinois.edu
Monday, March 31, 2025
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Topics to be covered include information about the Beinecke, Churchill, Fulbright, Gates Cambridge, Goldwater, Knight-Hennessy, Luce Scholars, Marshall, Mitchell, Rhodes, Schwarzman, Truman, and Udall programs and how you may prepare for these opportunities.
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
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All are welcome to join our weekly 10-10:30 a.m. Tuesday gather in the atrium sessions. Please feel free to bring your own favorite beverage and enjoy the company!
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"The Magic of RNA: New Medicines, Immortality, and the Power to Control Evolution" Thomas R. Cech, PhD Nobel Laureate Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute BioFrontiers Institute University of Colorado Boulder I-Hotel and Conference Center Reception and book signing to follow.
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Topics to be covered include information about the Beinecke, Churchill, Fulbright, Gates Cambridge, Goldwater, Knight-Hennessy, Luce Scholars, Marshall, Mitchell, Rhodes, Schwarzman, Truman, and Udall programs and how you may prepare for these opportunities.
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
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"Dissecting sub-millisecond stepping dynamics of dynein with MINFLUX" Joseph Slivka, PhD Candidate, Yildiz & Limmer Group - Physics, University of California, Berkley
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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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Topics to be covered include information about the Beinecke, Churchill, Fulbright, Gates Cambridge, Goldwater, Knight-Hennessy, Luce Scholars, Marshall, Mitchell, Rhodes, Schwarzman, Truman, and Udall programs and how you may prepare for these opportunities.
Thursday, April 3, 2025
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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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"Biocluster" Dan Davidson, CNRG Director of CNRG and Research Computing
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Topics to be covered include information about the Beinecke, Churchill, Fulbright, Gates Cambridge, Goldwater, Knight-Hennessy, Luce Scholars, Marshall, Mitchell, Rhodes, Schwarzman, Truman, and Udall programs and how you may prepare for these opportunities.
Friday, April 4, 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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Topics to be covered include information about the Beinecke, Churchill, Fulbright, Gates Cambridge, Goldwater, Knight-Hennessy, Luce Scholars, Marshall, Mitchell, Rhodes, Schwarzman, Truman, and Udall programs and how you may prepare for these opportunities.
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Friday Forum + Conversation Cafe To Thy Happy Children of the Future: Divestment as Progress, Students for Environmental Concerns, in conversation with Jim Hinterlong April 4, 2025 12:00 pm -1:00 pm (CST) University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign
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Topics to be covered include information about the Beinecke, Churchill, Fulbright, Gates Cambridge, Goldwater, Knight-Hennessy, Luce Scholars, Marshall, Mitchell, Rhodes, Schwarzman, Truman, and Udall programs and how you may prepare for these opportunities.