Research Technology Master Calendar
Sunday, September 28, 2025
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All DayTravel to Silicon Valley and interact with corporate leaders, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurial alumni in various stages of a startup life cycle that share lessons learned about entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership
Monday, September 29, 2025
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All Day
Travel to Silicon Valley and interact with corporate leaders, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurial alumni in various stages of a startup life cycle that share lessons learned about entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership
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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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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 Central Time
NCSA is offering a 2-hour workshop for campus researchers to introduce the Illinois Campus Cluster (ICC) and teach how to perform basic tasks in its cluster environment. There are no prerequisites for this workshop. A user account on the ICC will be provided for the hands-on exercises. Register by Sept 25, 2025.
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2:00 - 3:00 pmAre you overwhelmed by organizing your sources? Zotero is a free, open-source citation manager that helps you store and organize your files and insert formatted citations into papers. You will leave this hands-on workshop with a Zotero library set up and ready to use!
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
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All Day
Travel to Silicon Valley and interact with corporate leaders, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurial alumni in various stages of a startup life cycle that share lessons learned about entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership
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8:30 - 10:30 amSpurlock Museum Collaboration and Community GalleryPlease join us September 30, 8:30 – 10:30 a.m., at the Spurlock Museum for the first event of the 2025-26 Community Engaged Research Series. This event will include opportunities to network with other community-engaged researchers, learn about community-engaged resources on campus, and hear from successful academic-community research teams.
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9:00 - 10:00 amThis Illinois REDCap workshop will focus on 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 events. It is recommended (but not required) that you have a REDCap account prior to attending the workshop.
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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 - 11:30 am
Our selected book will be… Relationship-Rich Education: How Human Connections Drive Success in College (Felten & Lambert, 2020) Online meetings are 10:00 -11:30 AM on Tuesdays - September 16 & 30 and October 14 & 28.
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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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11:00 am - 12:00 pmPubMed is a free online database used to search the medicine and health literature with the aim of improving both global and personal health. In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to access PubMed and perform basic searches, as well as how to use some unique functions such as search filters and MeSH terms.
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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 - 1:00 pmJoin us on Tuesday, September 30 from 12-1 p.m. for a webinar on Marketing to Hire - Attracting the Right Talent with the Right Message with Scott Clanin of Clanin Creative.
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Serdar Bulun, PhD John J. Sciarra Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine "Uterine Fibroids: How Genetics Informs Neoplastic Transformation and Treatment"
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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 pmAltgeld Hall 147
Speaker: Annie Zeng (UIUC) Title: On the Structure of EFX Orientations on Graphs
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1:30 - 3:00 pm[Hybrid] Coble Hall 306 & Zoom
Join us for a hybrid event with Uluğ Kuzuoğlu, a historian of modern China and the world, currently teaching at Washington University in St. Louis. His research focuses on the history of non-Western information and communication technologies, spanning from printing devices to artificial intelligence, and their intersections with political ideologies and social imaginaries.
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3:30 - 5:00 pmGraduate College 202 (507 E. Green St., Champaign)How do I become an inclusive and responsive mentor?
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Progress in Gas (CO2) Injection Processes for Energy & Sustainability: Current and Future Challenges
4:00 pm4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
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All Day
Travel to Silicon Valley and interact with corporate leaders, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurial alumni in various stages of a startup life cycle that share lessons learned about entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership
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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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10:00 - 11:00 am
Get up to speed quickly on making your Microsoft Word documents accessible for everyone while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll start with a brief overview of common accessibility challenges in Word and then jump right into practice.
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10:00 - 11:00 amMain Library, Room 314Infographics can be an effective way to convey small bits of information very quickly, while drawing viewers in due to their visual appeal. In this workshop students will learn about best practices for creating infographics and be introduced to several free online tools that allow users to create their own infographics.
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11:30 am - 12:50 pm 08/19/2025Siebel Center for Desig, Sunset Studio 1050 (1208 South 4th Street)
Replace this line of text with a short version of description which will be displayed in the calendar list view. DO NOT REMOVE THE FOLLOWING TEXT *This workshop counts towards completion of any of CITL's Teaching Certificates. To learn more about our Teaching Certificate program please visit https://go.illinois.edu/teaching_certificates.
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
"A Home-Built Spatial Transcriptomics Microscope: Sample Prep and Applications" Duncan Nall, Research Scientist, Core Facilities Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
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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 - 1:00 pmAn overview of the industry/nonprofit job search
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12:00 pmRoom 212, 501 E. Daniel St, School of Information Sciences
Visiting professor Helle Strandgaard Jensen (Aarhus University) will give a brown bag lecture on the transnational history of Sesame Street. Come and learn with the Center for Children's Books!
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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 - 1:50 pmArmory room 156 and online via Zoom
To kick-off the “Fall into AI,” CITL’s Przemek Bosak will peek under the hood of Artificial Intelligence. The following foundational questions will be addressed: How does AI work? How does it know what it knows? What does it do well? What are the processes behind it? The presentation will conclude with a short, speculative overview of the future of AI.
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5:00 - 7:00 pmCIF Monumental StepsSocialFuse: The event where you can pitch your startup idea, network, and find teammates. Or sit back and check things out!
Thursday, October 2, 2025
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All Day
Travel to Silicon Valley and interact with corporate leaders, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurial alumni in various stages of a startup life cycle that share lessons learned about entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership
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All DayMain Library
Join us for the three days of academic discussions and cultural events at the biennial Dmytro Shtohryn International Ukrainian Studies Conference. The conference brings together Ukrainian Studies scholars and researchers across a broad spectrum of disciplines to explore the theme of Continuities and Ruptures in Ukrainian Culture and Society.
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9:30 - 10:30 amEnglish Building, Suite 112
Need guidance while looking for campus data? Need help wrangling data for a project or to make decisions? Drop by to discuss data-related topics.
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11:00 amCharles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSLAssistant Professor, Dept. of Comparative Biosciences
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
"Audio/Visual" Joe Leigh, CNRG Associate Director of IT Solutions
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12:30 pm 1:30 pmGregory Hall, Room 225
The ICR Colloquium Series is an interdisciplinary forum that brings together faculty, researchers, staff, graduate students, and interested undergraduates to engage in dialogue around some of the most relevant and timely research in our field Topic(s): Artificial Intelligence Governance in South Korea and Mixed-Reality Medical Training
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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 - 3:30 pmLearn to craft a compelling fellowship proposal.
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2:00 - 3:00 pm
Get up to speed quickly on making your MS Excel spreadsheets accessible for everyone! In this hands-on workshop, we'll work together, hands-on, with practical strategies for naming tables, labeling header cells and workbook titles and sheets, creating accessible links, and working with colors and color testing tools.
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2:00 - 3:00 pmFunk ACES Library, Room 509MAXQDA is a robust software for analyzing qualitative data, including text, media, and survey data. MAXQDA is available for free to all campus users via Illinois Computes. This is the third and final workshop in a three-part series on using MAXQDA for analyzing qualitative data and assumes that you know how to work with codes and data files in a MAXQDA project.
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3:00 - 4:00 pmThe Doctoral Research Support Program and the Writers Workshop are hosting Writing in the Disciplines, an online series that connects doctoral students with faculty, journal editors, and publishers to discuss writing styles and skills in specific disciplines. These events are open to all current doctoral students. We are extending an invitation to master's degree students
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3:30 - 4:30 pm4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering BuildingHear from advisers and current ILEE students, ask questions, and learn how ILEE can help you gain a competitive edge in the job market.
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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.
Friday, October 3, 2025
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All Day
Travel to Silicon Valley and interact with corporate leaders, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurial alumni in various stages of a startup life cycle that share lessons learned about entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership
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All DayMain Library
Join us for the three days of academic discussions and cultural events at the biennial Dmytro Shtohryn International Ukrainian Studies Conference. The conference brings together Ukrainian Studies scholars and researchers across a broad spectrum of disciplines to explore the theme of Continuities and Ruptures in Ukrainian Culture and Society.
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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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10:00 - 11:00 amMAXQDA is a robust software for analyzing qualitative data, including text, media, and survey data. MAXQDA is available for free to all campus users via Illinois Computes. This is the third and final workshop in a three-part series on using MAXQDA for analyzing qualitative data and assumes that you know how to work with codes and data files in a MAXQDA project.
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11:00 am - 12:00 pmThis intensive session is designed for those looking to systematically advance their database search skills, particularly in the social sciences. It will provide a big picture understanding of the database searching process.
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11:30 am - 1:00 pm103 Armory Building, 505 E Armory Ave, Champaign
Our selected book will be… Relationship-Rich Education: How Human Connections Drive Success in College (Felten & Lambert, 2020) In Person meetings are 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM on Fridays - September 19 and October 3, 17, & 31.
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12:00 - 1:00 pmEnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin the Data + AI User Group on Friday, October 3 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
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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 pmAn ongoing dialogue series where INFO PhD students can gather to learn about and discuss essential information for the Informatics Programs PhD program. Please join us at this and all upcoming fall sessions.
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3:00 - 4:00 pm2049 Natural History Building and Zoom
On October 3, the Geography Graduate Student Association (GGSA) and the Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science (GGIS) will host Dr. Rebecca Lave (Indiana University) to deliver a talk titled Critical interdisciplinarity: Our depth perception improves when we combine biophysical and social lenses. This event will be hybrid.
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5:00 - 7:00 pmLevis Faculty Center 210
2nd annual Lux Veritatis Lecture with Prof. Xin Wen (Princeton) ~~ The Central Asian kingdom of Turfan clothed the bodies of the dead with used papers which reveal that an extraordinary number of travelers from all over Eurasia converged there.
Saturday, October 4, 2025
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All Day
Travel to Silicon Valley and interact with corporate leaders, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurial alumni in various stages of a startup life cycle that share lessons learned about entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership
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All DayMain Library
Join us for the three days of academic discussions and cultural events at the biennial Dmytro Shtohryn International Ukrainian Studies Conference. The conference brings together Ukrainian Studies scholars and researchers across a broad spectrum of disciplines to explore the theme of Continuities and Ruptures in Ukrainian Culture and Society.
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10:30 am - 12:00 pmKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
Hands-on art activities for children ages 3+ and their caregivers! Throughout the galleries, enjoy art activities, family tours, and demonstrations on Saturday from 10:30 am until 12:30 pm celebrating the reinstallation of Fragmented Histories: Andean Art Before 1600.
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11:00Downtown ChampaignVisit businesses in downtown Champaign from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for interactive activities for both kids and adults! Afterward, join us at the Virginia Theatre for a screening of "Observer" at 3 p.m., presented by Illinois Public Media. The first 200 STEM Crawl participants will be provided with free movie tickets.
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11:00 am - 3:30 pmMultiple locationsJoin us on Saturday, October 4, 2025, when we’ll be highlighting the best of the humanities on our campus, including academic departments, student groups, research, resources, and alumni stories.
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11:00 am - 3:30 pmMultiple locationsJoin us on Saturday, October 4, 2025, when we’ll be highlighting the best of the humanities on our campus, including academic departments, student groups, research, resources, and alumni stories.
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1:00 - 1:50 pmMain Library, 1408 W Gregory Dr., Champaign
Sunday, October 5, 2025
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All Day
Travel to Silicon Valley and interact with corporate leaders, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurial alumni in various stages of a startup life cycle that share lessons learned about entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership
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11:00 am - 3:00 pmCenter for Children's Books / Room 213
Brand new books at heavily discounted prices! Including: young adult, graphic novels, middle grade, and picture books. Proceeds will go to support the Center for Children's Books and the Bulletin. The sale will run from Sunday, Oct 5th - Tuesday, Oct 7th, at various times.
Monday, October 6, 2025
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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 pmAre you having trouble organizing all your sources but don’t know where to start? This hands-on workshop will introduce you to three popular citation managers—Mendeley, Zotero, and Endnote. We will go over pros and cons of each one and give you a preview of how they work to help you choose the best fit for your citation needs.
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4:00 - 5:00 pmCIF 2035
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
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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 - 11:30 am Central Time
Join us for a comprehensive three-part workshop series designed to introduce researchers and practitioners with disabilities to the NCSA Delta high-performance computing cluster. This hands-on series prioritizes command-line proficiency, clear verbal instruction, and practical problem-solving approaches that work for all users.
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Learn the accessibility requirements for making your Canvas courses accessible. This hands-on workshop will cover using the Canvas editor to create navigable pages, writing effective alt text description for images, charts, and graphs, ensuring readable color contrast, creating accessible tables and links, and using Canvas accessibility tools to fix common issues.
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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
Fox Family Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lecture Jim Hedges CEO of CoverCress “What experience taught me: 7 keys to startup success”
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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
NCSA 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 October 2.
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1:00 - 2:00 pmAltgeld Hall 147
Speaker: Abhishek Methuku (UIUC) Title: Independent sets and colorings of K_{t,t,t}-free graphs
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3:30 - 5:00 pmBest practices for sustaining a mentoring relationship
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4:00 pm4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
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4:30 pmSpurlock Museum - 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL 61801
Drawing on her recent book, The Heartland (an NPR best book of the year), Professor Kristin Hoganson challenges perceptions of the rural Midwest as quintessentially local prior to World War I. Her starting point is Champaign County, but the stories she has uncovered are surprisingly global in scope.
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5:15 - 6:45 pmLincoln Hall 1000
François Proulx (French & Italian, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) will deliver lecture on Post-structuralism as part of the Fall 2025 Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series. Please check the MCT website for the latest location updates.
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5:15 - 6:45 pmLincoln Hall 1000
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
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10:00 - 11:30 am Central Time
Join us for a comprehensive three-part workshop series designed to introduce researchers and practitioners with disabilities to the NCSA Delta high-performance computing cluster. This hands-on series prioritizes command-line proficiency, clear verbal instruction, and practical problem-solving approaches that work for all users.
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All DayResearch ParkFounders Week celebrates our collective entrepreneurial successes and showcases the innovative ecosystem that fosters groundbreaking ventures.
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8:30Graduate College (507 E. Green St., Champaign)
Experiment with ways to use AI in your research process and reflect on its usefulness
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Transform the way you build courses in Canvas LMS with DesignPLUS, a powerful toolset that helps you rapidly build and style quality courses.
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11:30 am - 12:50 pm 08/19/2025Siebel Center for Desig, Sunset Studio 1050 (1208 South 4th Street)
Replace this line of text with a short version of description which will be displayed in the calendar list view. DO NOT REMOVE THE FOLLOWING TEXT *This workshop counts towards completion of any of CITL's Teaching Certificates. To learn more about our Teaching Certificate program please visit https://go.illinois.edu/teaching_certificates.
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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 - 1:00 pm
EJP accepts applications every fall from individuals interested in working with our college-in-prison program at Danville Correctional Center, on our reentry and deportation guides, and with our policy and research team. We seek tutors, workshop instructors, and more for part-time, uncompensated roles in our vibrant learning community at the prison.
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
"An Introduction to the LSM 980" Umnia Doha, Research Scientist,Core Facilities Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
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12:00 - 1:00 pmUniversity Archives, Room 146, Main LibraryIf you like trivia or university history, come to our first ever Ultimate Archives Trivia! Questions will focus on University of Illinois history involving academics, athletics, inventions, events, faculty, and alumni.
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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 pmMain Library, Room 314Looking for a new way to conduct your research? Tired of getting zero results in your database searches? This workshop will break down how the professionals identify resources, and search for articles, books, and other scholarly works.
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4:00 - 5:00 pmIllini Union Bookstore Building, Rm 514
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4:00 pmBallroom, Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 S. Lincoln Ave
In this CAS/MillerComm talk, Professor Reyes Mason will discuss examples of climate injustice in the U.S. and abroad, then suggest ways to multi-solve the climate crisis with other societal problems, discuss strategies for action including collaborating across sectors and silos and offer touchstones of hope and joy.
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4:00 - 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102 -
5:30 - 7:00 pmEnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin us for the kickoff of Founders Week with the iVenture Demo Day on Wednesday, October 8 from 5:30-7 p.m.
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7:00 pmSpurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
Join Spurlock Museum staff as we explore erotica in our collection. Take a guided tour of some of our galleries, get a closer look at some of our artifacts, and enjoy some cupcakes. Audience: University Students/Adults
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7:00 pmRm 331 A + D Building 408 E Peabody • Rm. 331 Art + Design Building 7:00 PM
In adjacent male and female prisons, inmates communicate by "pecking" messages by hand. New prisoner Julian forges an alliance with the hot-tempered Manaury and learns to become a "woodpecker." Complications arise when Yanelly, Manaury's girlfriend, becomes more interested in communicating with Julian.
Thursday, October 9, 2025
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10:00 - 11:30 am Central Time
Join us for a comprehensive three-part workshop series designed to introduce researchers and practitioners with disabilities to the NCSA Delta high-performance computing cluster. This hands-on series prioritizes command-line proficiency, clear verbal instruction, and practical problem-solving approaches that work for all users.
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All DayResearch Park
Founders Week celebrates our collective entrepreneurial successes and showcases the innovative ecosystem that fosters groundbreaking ventures.
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All DayChampaign/Urbana - more details to come
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is excited to invite you to our premiere Beyond Borders: Global Collaborations for Mental Health Research and Services Conference on October 9 and 10, 2025 in Champaign, Illinois. Coinciding with World Mental Health Day, our theme is: From local to global, encouraging creative solutions to transcultural mental health challenges.
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9:30 - 10:30 amEnglish Building, Suite 112
Need guidance while looking for campus data? Need help wrangling data for a project or to make decisions? Drop by to discuss data-related topics.
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10:00 - 11:00 amJoin us on Thursday, October 9 from 10-11 a.m. for a webinar on Holiday Marketing Checklist - Getting Ready for Holiday Shopping with Scott Clanin of Clanin Creative.
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10:00 - 11:30 amMaster the art of the personal statement.
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11:00 am - 2:00 pmBusiness Instructional Facility, 515 E Gregory Drive, Champaign, IL 61820Join us for the Illinois Capital Forum on Thursday, October 9 from 11a.m. - 2 p.m. at the Business Instructional Facility as part of Founders Week.
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11:00 amCharles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL -
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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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12:00 - 1:00 pmJoin us on Zoom (registration link below) or at the University Archives (146 Main Library, 1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana)Dr. Karen Terio, Professor and Interim Assistant Director of the Veterinary Diagnostic Lab, Chief of the Zoological Pathology Program, and Professor of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, will discuss her research on wildlife pathology.
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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, Oct 9, from 12 -1 pm. Dr. Karen Terio, Professor and Interim Assistant Director of the Veterinary Diagnostic Lab and Chief of the Zoological Pathology Program, will present “Wildlife Pathology: Dead animals tell tales”
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12:30 pm 1:30 pmGregory Hall, Room 225
The ICR Colloquium Series is an interdisciplinary forum that brings together faculty, researchers, staff, graduate students, and interested undergraduates to engage in dialogue around some of the most relevant and timely research in our field. Dr. Yao will be discussing AI-Driven Machines, Minds, and Media in Human Communication.
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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 pmNational Center for Supercomputing Application, 1204 W Clark St, Urbana, IL 61801Join us for Student Startup to Top-Tier VC Funded Company on Thursday, October 9 from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. at the Siebel Center for Computer Science as part of Founders Week.
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2:00 - 3:00 pmCITL Innovation Studio, Armory 172Throughout your life you will, almost certainly, give presentations. We have all sat through presentations that were boring, confusing, and drab. How do you communicate your message most succinctly? What visuals will captivate and inform your audience the best? Is it only about your slide design or are there other techniques that leave a lasting impression?
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2:45 - 4:20 pmEnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Dr, Champaign, IL 61820Join us for Innovation Tours and Site Visits on Thursday, October 9 from 2:45 a.m. - 4:20 p.m. at EnterpriseWorks as part of Founders Week.
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3:00 - 4:00 pmMain Library, Room 314Thinking about using AI for your qualitative project? In this workshop we’ll explore examples of how AI has been used in qualitative data analysis and factors to consider as you decide whether to use AI tools in your own work.
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3:00 - 4:00 pmIn this session, students will learn about how note-taking applications (including AI-powered tools) can significantly benefit their research process. For each tool, facilitators will share its purpose, how to use it, and how it meets various research needs.
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5:00 - 7:00 pmCIF 2035
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5:00 - 6:30 pmEnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Dr, Champaign, IL 61820Join us for the TechRise Startup Pitch Competition on Thursday, October 9 from 5 - 6:30 p.m. at EnterpriseWorks as part of Founders Week.
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5:30 - 7:00 pmKrannert Art Museum, Room 62
Friday, October 10, 2025
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All DayResearch Park
Founders Week celebrates our collective entrepreneurial successes and showcases the innovative ecosystem that fosters groundbreaking ventures.
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All DayChampaign/Urbana - more details to come
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is excited to invite you to our premiere Beyond Borders: Global Collaborations for Mental Health Research and Services Conference on October 9 and 10, 2025 in Champaign, Illinois. Coinciding with World Mental Health Day, our theme is: From local to global, encouraging creative solutions to transcultural mental health challenges.
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9:00 am - 12:00 pmMain Library Orange Room, or via Zoom
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10:00 - 11:00 amThinking about using AI for your qualitative project? In this workshop we’ll explore examples of how AI has been used in qualitative data analysis and factors to consider as you decide whether to use AI tools in your own work.
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11:00 am - 4:00 pmIllinois Conference Center, 111 St Marys Rd, Champaign, IL 61820Join us for the Founders Showcase - Day Session on Friday, October 10 from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. at the Illinois Conference Center as part of Founders Week.
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11:00 am - 12:00 pmSystematic reviews require a rigorous and systematic approach to reviewing existing literature and discovering new knowledge. As the number of scholarly publications rapidly increases across all disciplines, AI tools hold promise for keeping pace with the expanding literature.
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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 pmCU Fab Lab
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4:00 - 6:00 pmSpurlock Museum: 600 S Gregory St, Urbana
In honor of LGBTQ+ History month, come by Spurlock for guided explorations of some of our exhibits and collections that document LGBTQ+ histories and cultures. Drop in any time between 4:00 and 6:00. Free admission. Everyone is welcome.
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4:30 - 6:00 pmIllinois Conference Center, 111 St Marys Rd, Champaign, IL 61820Join us in Celebrating 25 Years of Illini Leadership in Innovation and Entrepreneurship on Friday, October 10 from 4:30 - 6:00 p.m. at the Illinois Conference Center as part of Founders Week.
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6:00 - 8:30 pmIllinois Conference Center, 111 St Marys Rd, Champaign, IL 61820Join us for the Founders Showcase - Evening Session on Friday, October 10 from 6 - 8:30 p.m. at the Illinois Conference Center as part of Founders Week.
Saturday, October 11, 2025
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All DayResearch Park
Founders Week celebrates our collective entrepreneurial successes and showcases the innovative ecosystem that fosters groundbreaking ventures.
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10:00 am - 4:00 pmKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
You are invited to enter a playful, restorative greenspace inside the museum. Soft artificial turf covers the gallery floor, inviting visitors to slow down and stretch out. By creating a visual and tactile interruption in typical museum spaces, Rest Lab 8: Greenspace, provides a calm, grounding atmosphere for people to gather.
Sunday, October 12, 2025
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2:00 pmSpurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
In September 1985, almost 80,000 fans packed Memorial Stadium on the UIUC campus to hear the first Farm Aid concert. Over 50 musical acts came together to raise awareness of the economic crisis facing American family farms. Our exhibit curator will offer a guided look at the exhibit commemorating Farm Aid's 40th anniversary. Free admission. No registration required.
Monday, October 13, 2025
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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
"Biocluster" Dan Davidson Director of CNRG and Research Computing
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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 pmCIF 2035
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4:00 - 5:00 pmNoyes Laboratory, 163
Angelica Waner, assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese argues that Zapotec literary magazines published in Mexico City and Oaxaca across the 20th century can be read as sites of autonomy for Isthmus Zapotec intellectuals.
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
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9:00 - 11:00 amMain 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 - 11:30 am
Our selected book will be… Relationship-Rich Education: How Human Connections Drive Success in College (Felten & Lambert, 2020) Online meetings are 10:00 -11:30 AM on Tuesdays - September 16 & 30 and October 14 & 28.
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10:00 am - 4:30 pmNCSA 3100
NCSA is hosting a Machine Learning and Big Data workshop presented by the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. This workshop will focus on big data analytics and machine learning with Spark, and deep learning using Tensorflow. This is an IN PERSON event, there WILL NOT be a virtual option for this event.
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11:00 am - 12:00 pmFunk ACES Library, Room 509Web of Science is a large multidisciplinary platform of abstract databases for articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings. This session provides insight and strategies for getting the most use out of the platform. We will highlight how to search for literature and authors, as well as where to find citation and grant information.
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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 - 1:00 pmiSchool MPR, 4th Floor - iSchool - 614 E. Daniel St.Join us at the iSchool on Tuesday, October 14th, from 12:00 to 1 PM at the iSchool for "The Second Impression: Follow-Up That Feels Human."
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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 pm
Get up to speed quickly on the basics of making PDF documents accessible for all while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. For hands-on participation, you will need Adobe Acrobat Pro (not Acrobat Reader). U of I, UIS, and UIC faculty and staff can obtain Acrobat Pro free from the U of I Webstore: https://webstore.illinois.edu/shop/product.aspx?zpid=6065
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3:00 - 4:00 pmWe are inviting doctoral students to join this discussion on dissertation writing and research. Later-stage PhD candidates will share their research, writing, and time management techniques. Each panelist will talk about strategies that have worked for them (or strategies that definitely have not worked).
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4:00 - 5:00 pmIllini Union Bookstore Building, Rm 514
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4:00 pm4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
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4:00 - 5:00 pmGrainger Engineering Library Information Center, Grainger Commons, Rooms 233/235A Scoping Review is a type of evidence synthesis that represents an exploration of research literature to understand the depth and breadth of research related to a specific question or topic. A scoping review maps concepts from the literature to reveal trends, themes, and gaps in the research area to inform, and provide context for further exploration or examination.
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5:15 - 6:45 pmLevis Faculty Center 210
Sofía Zaragocín (Geography & GIS, UIUC) will deliver a lecture on Feminism (Latin America/Latinx Feminist Geographies) as part of the Fall 2025 Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series. Please check the MCT website for the latest location updates.
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5:15 - 6:45 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
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10:00 am - 4:30 pmNCSA 3100
NCSA is hosting a Machine Learning and Big Data workshop presented by the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. This workshop will focus on big data analytics and machine learning with Spark, and deep learning using Tensorflow. This is an IN PERSON event, there WILL NOT be a virtual option for this event.
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8:00 am2269 & East Atrium
We welcome you to join Sandia National Labs and U of Illinois for our 4th Annual Joint Student Symposium and poster session at the U of Illinois!
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8:30Graduate College (507 E. Green St., Champaign)
Experiment with ways to use AI in your research process and reflect on its usefulness
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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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11:30 am - 12:50 pm 08/19/2025Siebel Center for Desig, Sunset Studio 1050 (1208 South 4th Street)
Replace this line of text with a short version of description which will be displayed in the calendar list view. DO NOT REMOVE THE FOLLOWING TEXT *This workshop counts towards completion of any of CITL's Teaching Certificates. To learn more about our Teaching Certificate program please visit https://go.illinois.edu/teaching_certificates.
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
"Aggregation and division aberrations in model archaeon lacking its S-layer" Abigail Finn, PhD Candidate Microbiology
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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 - 1:00 pmNew to the university? Need a refresher on using the library? This hands-on workshop will introduce you to library resources and services. After this workshop, you’ll be able to navigate the library website with confidence to access print and electronic materials. Come with questions if you have them!
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12:30 - 1:30 pmInstitute of Communications Research
Media scholars John D. Peters (Yale) and Ben Peters (UTulsa) will reflect on the digital media sometimes called artificial intelligence. They will share insights from ongoing research projects, including Ben’s research on the Soviet prehistory of AI. Among his working points: AI today is Soviet and ChatGPT hallucinates because of Stalin’s homophobic purges.
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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 -
5:30 - 7:30 pmCampus Instructional Facility, Room 4039
Join us for a lecture in the Illinois Forum on Human Flourishing in a Digital Age Speaker Series with John Durham Peters, the María Rosa Menocal Professor of English and Professor of Film and Media Studies at Yale University.
Thursday, October 16, 2025
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9:30 - 10:30 amEnglish Building, Suite 112
Need guidance while looking for campus data? Need help wrangling data for a project or to make decisions? Drop by to discuss data-related topics.
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11:00 amCharles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL -
11:00 am - 12:00 pmGoogle Scholar is an incredibly popular and useful tool for research with several features that scholars may not be familiar with. This workshop will elaborate on the difference between searching in Google Scholar and academic databases, demonstrate how to use Google Scholar’s Advanced Search, explain how to get to connect your library access to Google Scholar, and more!
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12:00 - 1:00 pmEnglish Building, Room 304So you know you want to work in “data” after you graduate – but what exactly does that mean? Hear from a panel working with data about what they do all day, data roles in their organizations, and how college prepares people to work as data professionals. Lunch will be provided. RSVP on Handshake.
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12:00 - 1:00 pmIllini Union Bookstore, Room 514
The Center for Writing Studies will be hosting Dr. Toby Beauchamp for a brownbag talk! Dr. Beauchamp will be giving a lecture titled "Embracing Trans Regret under Authoritarianism." Please join us this week on Thursday, October 16!
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12:00 - 1:00 pmIllini Union Bookstore, Room 514
The Center for Writing Studies is happy to host Dr. Toby Beauchamp! He will be giving a lecture titled "Embracing Trans Regret under Authoritarianism." Please join us on Thursday, October 16th!
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12:30 pm 1:30 pmGregory Hall, Room 225
The ICR Colloquium Series is an interdisciplinary forum that brings together faculty, researchers, staff, graduate students, and interested undergraduates to engage in dialogue around some of the most relevant and timely research in our field. Topic: Job Talk with Jennifer Zhang
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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 pm
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.
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2:00 - 3:00 pmMain Library, Room 314Qualitative data analysis software programs can be valuable tools for organizing research sources for a literature review. This workshop will demonstrate techniques for organizing and analyzing literature in the software program MAXQDA, though the strategies will be relevant to other qualitative data analysis tools like NVivo or Atlas.ti.
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3:00 - 4:00 pmThe Doctoral Research Support Program and the Writers Workshop are hosting Writing in the Disciplines, an online series that connects doctoral students with faculty, journal editors, and publishers to discuss writing styles and skills in specific disciplines. These events are open to all current doctoral students. We are extending an invitation to master's degree students
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5:15 pmMain Library Building, Room 66 (1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801)
An award-winning film, SHTTL (Ukraine, 2022), portrays the lives of people in a small Ukrainian Jewish town (shtetl) at the Polish border, 24 hours before the Nazi invasion. It is a touching story of a filmmaker who returns from Kyiv to his native shtetl to marry the love of his life and disrupts the balance of the entire town.
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7:00 - 8:30 pm3025 Campus Instructional FaciltyTake advantage of this opportunity to get FREE patent and trademark assistance!
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7:30 pmIllini Union, Room 210Nadine Naber (Gender and Women’s Studies, Global Asian Studies, University of Illinois Chicago) will present the lecture “Radical Mothering as Prison Abolition Pedagogy in Chicago” as part of the Story & Place event series.
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7:30 pmIllini Union, Room 210Nadine Naber (Gender and Women’s Studies, Global Asian Studies, University of Illinois Chicago) will present the lecture “Radical Mothering as Prison Abolition Pedagogy in Chicago” as part of the Story & Place event series.
Friday, October 17, 2025
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9:00 am - 12:00 pmMain Library Orange Room, or via Zoom
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9:00 am3100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
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10:00 - 11:00 amQualitative data analysis software programs can be valuable tools for organizing research sources for a literature review. This workshop will demonstrate techniques for organizing and analyzing literature in the software program MAXQDA, though the strategies will be relevant to other qualitative data analysis tools like NVivo or Atlas.ti.
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10:00 am - 5:00 pmSchool of Art & Design, Room 15
This symposium will explore artistic production, practices, and the agency of printed media before 1750 as they intersect with themes of sexuality and gender. Keynote speaker will be Dr.
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11:00 am - 12:00 pmA Scoping Review is a type of evidence synthesis that represents an exploration of research literature to understand the depth and breadth of research related to a specific question or topic. A scoping review maps concepts from the literature to reveal trends, themes, and gaps in the research area to inform, and provide context for further exploration or examination.
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11:30 am - 1:00 pm103 Armory Building, 505 E Armory Ave, Champaign
Our selected book will be… Relationship-Rich Education: How Human Connections Drive Success in College (Felten & Lambert, 2020) In Person meetings are 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM on Fridays - September 19 and October 3, 17, & 31.
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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 pmEnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin us on Friday, October 17 from 12 to 1 PM at EnterpriseWorks for Building a Successful Founder-Investor Partnership with Dennis Beard.
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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 pmAn ongoing dialogue series where INFO PhD students can gather to learn about and discuss essential information for the Informatics Programs PhD program. Please join us at this and all upcoming fall sessions.
Saturday, October 18, 2025
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10:00 am - 2:00 pmLincoln Square Mall, 201 Lincoln Square, Urbana, IL 61801
Join us for a fun day of hands-on science! Talk with scientists and explore exhibits and activities including learning how organisms relate to each other on the Tree of Life, extracting strawberry DNA to make necklaces, and understanding how genomics pervades every aspect of our daily lives. Although designed for K-12 children, all members of the community are welcome.
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10:00 am - 4:00 pmIllini Union | Main LibraryJoin us at IlliniFest on Saturday, October 18th for our biggest open house of the year! Come visit the University Library at the Resource Fair in the Illini Union (10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.) Take a guided or self-guided tour of the Main Library (1:00 to 4:00 p.m.)
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11:00 am - 4:00 pmJapan House (2000 S Lincoln Ave Urbana, IL 61802)
Japan House's Fall Open House features artists Seiran Chiba, Masaji Hashimoto, Shinya Terasawa, and Hirohisa Saito to present on Fukushima traditional arts and crafts. Japanese tea ceremonies will be offered at 11am, 12pm, 1pm, and 2pm. At 3pm, the artists will be giving a free presentation about their work.
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1:00 - 3:00 pmKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
Come experience immersive sound as you view artworks at Krannert Art Museum! Members of Improvisers Exchange Ensemble will create soundscapes within the museum through site-specific solo performance and collective improvisation in reflection and response to artwork on display. Museum visitors are invited to experience viewing the art in these sonic locations.
Monday, October 20, 2025
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10:00 - 11:00 amLooking for a new way to conduct your research? Tired of getting zero results in your database searches? This workshop will break down how the professionals identify resources, and search for articles, books, and other scholarly works. We’ll cover chasing citations, creating optimal keyword searches, using built-in database functions to improve your searches, and more!
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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 pm
Learn the advantages of teaching an LAS Online-certified course and how to make yours certified!
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4:00 - 6:30 pmSpurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801
Join us for a free screening of the film "Black Box Diaries" followed by an in person Q&A with the filmmaker Shiori Itô. This is first AsiaLENS film of the school year hosted by CEAPS and we hope to see you there on Oct 20, 2025 (4:00-6:30 pm).
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
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9:00 - 11:00 amMain 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 am
Ready to get started with Canvas? This workshop will walk you through the basics of Canvas so you can confidently navigate your course site, communicate with students, and manage essential tasks.
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12:00 - 1:30 pmACES Library Heritage RoomGraduate students are invited to a lunch and panel discussion with experts from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a local community organization, who will discuss their experience conducting community-engaged research projects.
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12:00 - 1:30 pmACES (Funk) Library, Heritage Room (107)
Community-Engaged Research Insights for Graduate Students: Graduate students interested in community-engaged research are invited to join a lunch and panel discussion with like-minded peers on Oct. 21, noon - 1:30 p.m. The panel of experts from Illinois and a local community organization will discuss their experience conducting community-engaged research projects.
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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 pm3269 Beckman Institute
Ari Belotserkovsky will present on Recent advances in AAV gene delivery and therapy for CNS diseases
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Claire Vanpouille-Box, PhD Cell Biology in Radiation Oncology; Weill Cornell Medicine "Targeting lipid metabolism to restore immune reactivity of irradiated glioblastoma"
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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, October 21 from 1-2 p.m. for a workshop on Canva 201 at the Champaign Public Library with Scott Clanin of Clanin Creative.
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1:00 - 2:00 pmAltgeld Hall 147
Speaker: Nhi Dinh (UIUC) Title: Choosability of multipartite hypergraphs
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1:00 pm 2:00 pm
The Illinois Computes Research Notebooks (ICRN) provides hosted web-based Jupyter Notebooks to the research community. This service offers web access to Jupyter notebooks with options for both Python and R, as well as web access through the service to R-Studio. Additionally, the service supports GPU-connected computation, making it an excellent resource for AI.
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3:00 - 4:30 pm
Get up to speed quickly on the basics of making PDF documents accessible for all while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. For hands-on participation, you will need Adobe Acrobat Pro (not Acrobat Reader). U of I, UIS, and UIC faculty and staff can obtain Acrobat Pro free from the U of I Webstore: https://webstore.illinois.edu/shop/product.aspx?zpid=6065
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3:00 - 4:00 pmIn this session, we partner with the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning to discuss survey research services and resources. This session is open to all doctoral students. Please complete the form to register for the workshop. It will be conducted through Zoom. We look forward to working with you!
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4:00 - 6:30 pmSpurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium
This event is FREE. Black Box Diaries traces Itō’s courageous investigation of her own sexual assault, an improbable attempt to prosecute a high-profile offender that became a landmark case in Japan. Itô reveals the black boxes and blind spots in Japan’s judicial and social systems.
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4:00 pm4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
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4:00 - 5:00 pmGraduate College 202 (507 E. Green St., Champaign) -
4:30 pmSpurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
The Rural Midwest in the 1980s and After by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, a Distinguished Professor of History at Iowa State University, where she has taught since 2000.
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5:45 pm 7:00 pmRoom 301 Coordinated Science Lab, 1308 W. Main St., Urbana
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
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8:00 - 9:30 amIllinois Conference Center (1900 South First St, Champaign)Research Park and the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation invite you to join us for AgTech Breakfast from 8:00-9:30 AM on Wednesday, October 22 at the Illinois Conference Center.
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8:30Graduate College (507 E. Green St., Champaign)
Experiment with ways to use AI in your research process and reflect on its usefulness
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8:30 amOffice of Civic Life
Each year, the Office of Civic Life coordinates the Thanksgiving Meal Drive to support the Big Give with HeartStrong Food Pantry. We are collecting items for a traditional Thanksgiving dinner that will support our goal of feeding 1000 families. Your donations are welcomed thru Friday, November 14, 2025.
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10:00 - 11:15 am
Are you concerned that your students may not be adequately engaged during their learning activities? Being fully engaged 100% of the time is not a realistic expectation, but there are a variety of ways to promote student engagement. We will focus on concepts underlying student engagement and practical strategies to engage our students across diverse formats.
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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 pmLevis Faculty Center 108
Join this collaborative session with HRI and the Writers Workshop for tips and guidance on preparing your HRI Graduate Fellowship application.
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12:00 pmLevis Faculty Center 108
Join this collaborative session with HRI and the Writers Workshop for tips and guidance on preparing your HRI Graduate Fellowship application.
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12:00 - 1:00 pmMain Library, Room 314Are you overwhelmed by organizing your sources? Zotero is a free, open-source citation manager that helps you store and organize your files and insert formatted citations into papers. You will leave this hands-on workshop with a Zotero library set up and ready to use!
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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 -
4:00 - 5:30 pmCampus Instructional Facility, Room 4039
Join us for a lecture in our postdoctoral colloquium series featuring Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Associate Dr. Saraí Blanco Martinez. Her talk "Radical Healing Processes of Latinx Immigrant-Origin Young People" will share about her most recent youth participatory action research collaboration, which used photovoice and plática methodologies.
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7:00 - 9:00 pmRm. 331 3rd Fl. Art + Design Building
During the 1930s in Sweden, indigenous Sami children were systematically removed from their parents. Reindeer-herding teenager Elle-Marja is one of these children, sent to a boarding school where indigenous students are taught Swedish language and customs and made ‘acceptable’ to white society. Elle-Marja is torn between assimilating and her burgeoning sense of self.
Thursday, October 23, 2025
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9:30 - 10:30 amEnglish Building, Suite 112
Need guidance while looking for campus data? Need help wrangling data for a project or to make decisions? Drop by to discuss data-related topics.
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11:00 amCharles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL -
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
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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12:30 pm 1:30 pmGregory Hall, Room 225
The ICR Colloquium Series is an interdisciplinary forum that brings together faculty, researchers, staff, graduate students, and interested undergraduates to engage in dialogue around some of the most relevant and timely research in our field. Dr. Pierre will be discussing Advertising Intelligence in Advertising.
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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
Scheide Librarian Emeritus (Princeton) Paul S. Needham will discuss the history and production of the Catholicon, and present his findings that it was printed not from movable type, as previously thought, but instead from two-line castings — a discovery that continues to incite vigorous discussion in the field.
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4:00 pmCenter for Advanced Study (CAS)
Fredrik Jonsson (History, U of Chicago) proposes a fundamentally new interpretation of Britain's fossil energy economy between the first and second industrial revolutions 1750-1914.
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4:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210
Lecture by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago. Professor Jonsson will discuss his work on some of the historical dimensions of the climate crisis.
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4:30 pmSpurlock Museum: 600 S Gregory St, Urbana
Join John Doe, co-founder of the legendary band X, for a conversation about the band’s appearance at the inaugural Farm Aid concert in Champaign in 1985. Our conversation with John Doe will be a chance to reflect on the inaugural Farm Aid concert ...
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5:00 pmJoin us for the second webinar in the Costumes & Customs Lecture Series, sponsored by the Office of Arts Integration and organized in collaboration with the University Library, the Department of Theatre, the Department of Classics, the Spurlock Museum, and the Krannert Art Museum, explores the history and cultural significance of clothing across time and place.
Friday, October 24, 2025
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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 DriveThe Society of American Military Engineers has been canceled for October.
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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 pmEnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin us on Friday, Oct. 24 from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. at EnterpriseWorks for the annual Flu Shot Clinic.
Monday, October 27, 2025
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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
"Data Management" Yifei Kang, CNRG Research Data Management Specialist
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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 pm Central Time
Join us for a one hour webinar that introduces the computational resources and support available to Illinois researchers on campus, and beyond! We will provide an overview of the resources and support available through the Illinois Computes program, other on-campus services, as well as the NSF-supported ACCESS program.
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4:00 - 5:00 pmCIF 2035
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5:00 - 7:30 pmLincoln Hall 3057
The HRI Social Movements Reading Group will hold two sessions on higher ed labor organizing with the Campus Faculty Association on Mon Oct 27 & Mon Nov 3, 5:30-7 PM (central time) at Lincoln Hall 3057 (use one of the entrances on Wright Street). We will read excerpts from Jane McAlevey’s No Shortcuts for the first session. Light refreshments provided. You can find more in
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
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9:00 - 11:00 amMain 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 - 11:30 am
Our selected book will be… Relationship-Rich Education: How Human Connections Drive Success in College (Felten & Lambert, 2020) Online meetings are 10:00 -11:30 AM on Tuesdays - September 16 & 30 and October 14 & 28.
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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
"Patterning the meristem: Development and Evolution of the floral ground plan" Ya Min, Assistant Professor Plant Biology, Physics
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12:00 - 1:00 pmAre you struggling to keep track of all your sources? Looking for an easier way to cite as you write? Mendeley is a free citation manager that helps you organize your citations, store and annotate your files, and insert formatted citations into papers. You will leave this hands-on workshop with a Mendeley library set up and ready to use!
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12:00 - 12:30 pmLearn more about the landscape of higher education
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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 pmAltgeld Hall 147
Speaker: Marcelo Sales (UC Irvine) Title: On possible uniform Tur\'{a}n densities.
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4:00 pm4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
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5:00 - 6:30 pmAlice Campbell Hall
Ayelet Tsabari’s National Jewish Book Award winning, novel, Songs for the Brokenhearted, traces the story of the history of Yemeni Israelis through a fictional family. Tsabari visited UIUC in 2019, and was interviewed for Ninth Letter.
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5:00 - 6:30 pmJohn Deere Technology Innovation Center, 2021 S 1st StreetJoin us on Tuesday, October 28 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. for the RSO Leadership Dinner in the Research Park at EnterpriseWorks.
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5:15 - 6:45 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
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8:30Graduate College (507 E. Green St., Champaign)
Experiment with ways to use AI in your research process and reflect on its usefulness
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9:00 am - 4:00 pmBeckman Institute, Tower Room 2269Please join us for this half day conference, with an optional deep dive workshop on quantitative research design in the afternoon.
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10:00 - 11:00 amCITL Innovation Studio, Armory 172Throughout your life you will, almost certainly, give presentations. We have all sat through presentations that were boring, confusing, and drab. How do you communicate your message most succinctly? What visuals will captivate and inform your audience the best? Is it only about your slide design or are there other techniques that leave a lasting impression?
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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.
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1:00 - 2:00 pmInfographics can be an effective way to convey small bits of information very quickly, while drawing viewers in due to their visual appeal. In this workshop students will learn about best practices for creating infographics and be introduced to several free online tools that allow users to create their own infographics.
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2:00 - 2:45 pm
Advance registration is just around the corner! Need to know which courses and sections are filling up? Wish there was data in a convenient form to tell you what you need to know? We have a solution. ATLAS Data Services has a dashboard to help drive decisions about when to open new sections for registration, and we're holding a short virtual workshop to introduce it.
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3:00 - 5:00 pmRicker Library of Architecture and Art, Architecture Building, 608 Lorado Taft Dr #208, Champaign, IL 61820Celebrate Halloween with Ricker Library ! On October 29th from 3pm-5pm, we will be hosting a show-and-tell with spooky, fantastical, and curious materials from our vault and circulating collections (with a special visiting item from RBML, weather permitting).
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3:00 - 4:00 pmMain Library Room 321
The International and Area Studies Library, Literatures and Languages Library, Ricker Library of Architecture and Art, Music and Performing Arts Library, and History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library invite you to our "International Studies and Humanities Meet and Greet" on Wednesday, October 29, from 3:00 to 4:00 PM, in Main Library Room 321.
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4:00 - 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
Thursday, October 30, 2025
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9:30 - 10:30 amEnglish Building, Suite 112
Need guidance while looking for campus data? Need help wrangling data for a project or to make decisions? Drop by to discuss data-related topics.
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10:00 - 11:00 amSiebel Center for Design, Sunrise Studio (Room 1046)
The Five-Room Dungeon is a method Gamemasters can use to keep their adventures new and exciting without having to put in a lot of extra work for each session. In this workshop, we'll apply a similar strategy to identify the core components of a good lesson, and see how different arrangements of core components can create new and interesting lessons.
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11:00 amCharles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSLProfessor, University of Michigan, Life Sciences Institute
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11:30 am - 1:00 pm
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 pmNCSA Building, 1205 W. Clark St., Urbana IL 61801 Room 1040
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12:30 pm 1:30 pmGregory Hall, Room 225
The ICR Colloquium Series is an interdisciplinary forum that brings together faculty, researchers, staff, graduate students, and interested undergraduates to engage in dialogue around some of the most relevant and timely research in our field. Topic: Egoistic and Altruistic Messages in Prosocial Communication
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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 pm
Get 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.
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4:00 pmGraduate College 202 (507 E. Green St., Champaign) -
5:00 - 6:30 pmAtkins Building Patio & Lawn, 1800 S Oak StJoin us on Thursday, October 30 from 5:00 to 6:30pm on the Atkins Patio & Lawn for our last Fire at Five of the season! This monthly happy hour + bonfire is a great opportunity to network with other companies throughout the Research Park.
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5:30 - 7:00 pmSiebel Center for Design, Classroom 1002
How might service and volunteer work reinforce structures of inequity? Join We CU and OVCDEI on Thursday, October 30, at 5:30 PM for a workshop on centering equity and humility in service learning. This training will help you develop strategies to promote equity in your own service work, critically examine biases, and center the voices of the communities you are serving.
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6:30 - 9:00 pmSpurlock Museum 600 S. Gregory Street, Urbana
Join us for a spectacular evening of African and other world language(s) poetry
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7:00 - 9:00 pmMain Library Room 66Join us at 7 pm in room 66 of the Main Library on Halloween Eve (Thursday, 10/30) for a screening of the modern classic, Coraline. FREE!
Friday, October 31, 2025
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9:00 am - 12:00 pmMain Library Orange Room, or via Zoom
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11:30 am - 1:00 pm103 Armory Building, 505 E Armory Ave, Champaign
Our selected book will be… Relationship-Rich Education: How Human Connections Drive Success in College (Felten & Lambert, 2020) In Person meetings are 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM on Fridays - September 19 and October 3, 17, & 31.
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12:00 - 1:30 pmNatural History Building 2049
Are you a first-gen student interested in grad school but unsure where to start? Our group of panelists from the Department of Geography & GIScience will answer your questions and share their experiences.
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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[Hybrid] Coble Hall 306 & Zoom
Please join us for a hybrid event with Baiheng Qian, a PhD Candidate in Classical Chinese Literature at Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou, China). Her talk examines women's ci poetry and cultural transformation in the mid-to-late Ming dynasty (1522-1644), a period shaped by tensions between hedonistic indulgence and moral rigor.
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3:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Rm 210
In 1978, the tropical city-state of Singapore received three polar bears, starting a dynasty of polar bears that ended in 2018. Within the lifespan of these tropical polar bears, the planet has undergone rapid and exponential growth in economies...
Saturday, November 1, 2025
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4:00 - 5:00 pmThe Literary: 122 N Neil St, Champaign, IL 61820
November 1, 2025 4-5pm - A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley: 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. Stop by the museum anytime during open hours to sign up and pick up your free book.