Research IT Master Calendar
Monday, April 1, 2024
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Prof. Kimberly Rios, a new faculty member in the Psychology Dept. SPO program area, will lecture "Understanding academics' perceptions of identity-related research: The role of intellectual humility."
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Keynote speaker Tim Pauketat, State Archaeologist and Director of Illinois State Archaeological Survey (ISAS); Remarks from Susan Martinis, Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation and Praveen Kumar, Executive Director of the Prairie Research Institute. Light refreshments will be provided. RSVP is required by March 22.
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Teaching presence strongly impacts the way students build their knowledge in your course. In this session, you will learn how to strategically apply your teaching presence to the critical roles you have as a Teaching Assistant and gain insights from outstanding faculty here at Illinois.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
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Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Coffee Connections will take place every other Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.
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"Of mice, men, birds and snakes: An evolutionary perspective on meiotic recombination in vertebrates" Molly Przeworski, PhD Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Systems Biology; Columbia University
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In this two-hour live Photoshop session, we will cover working with selections in preparation to edit images. Participants can select online or in-person.
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
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We’re accepting entries from undergrads, grad students, postdocs/staff researchers, and faculty members. We also will allow images captured within our core research facilities by non-Beckman affiliates. Read the full rules and submit your image here: http://go.beckman.illinois.edu/imgcontest.
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Learn how to create and edit OneNote notebooks, search and export notes. We will explore the use and management of sections and pages including section groups and subpages. We will enter data into OneNote from a variety of sources, from existing documents to webpages. We will discuss merits of embedding spreadsheets or linking.
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Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall 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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In this two-hour live Photoshop session, we will cover working with layers and learn to edit in a non-destructive way. Participants can choose in-person or online.
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"The sounds only some of us can hear: Studies on tinnitus and hyperacusis" Fatima Husain Professor of Speech and Hearing Science Beckman Institute
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Join us for an evening with Caroline Bressey (Geography, University College London), Kennetta Hammond Perry (Black Studies, Northwestern University), and Rochelle Sennet (Music and Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, College of Fine and Applied Arts) as they share their research on Black Britons in a variety of media.
Thursday, April 4, 2024
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Learn about the Fulbright U.S. Student Grant Program.
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Professor, Dept. Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Friday, April 5, 2024
Monday, April 8, 2024
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
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Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Coffee Connections will take place every other Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.
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Holger Schmidt, PhD Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Narinder Singh Kapany Chair of Optoelectronics, Baskin School of Engineering; University of California Santa Cruz "Integrated optofluidic devices for single molecule analysis"
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Creating, storing, and updating organizational charts can be a time-consuming task. Using software that is designed for visualizing information aids the process. Visio can even generate a diagram that adds the shapes and connectors for you from data that is stored in an Excel workbook. In this workshop attendees will create simple org charts, and pull from excel.
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
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We’re accepting entries from undergrads, grad students, postdocs/staff researchers, and faculty members. We also will allow images captured within our core research facilities by non-Beckman affiliates. Read the full rules and submit your image here: http://go.beckman.illinois.edu/imgcontest.
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In this 2-hour instructor led short course you will learn how to specific features and tips on managing email more efficiently from conversation view to rules to pre-sort messages and moving folders around.
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Join Beckman Interim Director Cathy Murphy in the Beckman center atrium for the annual presentation of two Beckman awards: the Vision and Spirit Award, and the Staff Spirit and Dedication Award. Cupcakes will follow in celebration of the April 10 anniversary of Arnold Beckman's birth.
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"A solid-liquid superposition model for interfacial solvation structures" Qian Ai, Graduate Research Assistant Materials Science & Engineering
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Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall 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, April 11, 2024
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This 2-hour Outlook Calendar workshop, participants will learn to schedule & edit appointments; work with calendar labels and tasks displayed on the Calendar. We will schedule with the Scheduling Assistant, practice scheduling a conference room, and discuss scheduling Online Meetings, and discuss calendar permissions.
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Join us in an instructor-led session using OneNote where we will discuss the structure of notebooks and how OneNote notebooks work within MS Teams. Prereq: understand Teams and MS OneNote. Pre-registration required; no walk-ins please.
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In this workshop, we'll investigate a model of motivation that can help you identify the kinds of things that might motivate your students. Once you are familiar with the model, you'll zoom in to your individual situation and identify more specific things you can do to get and keep your students motivated.
Friday, April 12, 2024
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Learn about the Fulbright U.S. Student Grant Program.
Monday, April 15, 2024
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Centered on the theme of connection, this Rest Lab will encourage visitors to explore rest as a way of sharing, listening, and responding to each other’s needs in community.
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Prof. Dan Hyde will lecture "Neural Foundations for Theory of Mind."
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Join us in a hybrid session where we will discuss best practices for setting up a Teams online meeting as well as joining the meeting. We'll cover the capabilities of meetings in Teams in addition to requirements and planning considerations for Teams. This session is aimed for beginner users of Teams. Pre-registration required.
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Join us for coffee and snacks as we create colorful paper requests that will fill up the space and build connections.
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
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Centered on the theme of connection, this Rest Lab will encourage visitors to explore rest as a way of sharing, listening, and responding to each other’s needs in community.
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This program provides new employees at the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois an overview of IT services that are critical to success on campus. Attendees can register for one, two, or more of the scheduled sessions. Offered at no cost to faculty/staff/students of the University of Illinois. New and current employees are invited to attend.
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Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Coffee Connections will take place every other Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.
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Peg McCarthy, PhD James & Carolyn Frenkil Endowed Dean's Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmacology; University of Maryland School of Medicine "Establishing Sex Differences in the Brain at the Intersection of the Nervous, Endocrine and Immune Systems"
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Mini-Symposium on AI-Powered Brain Mapping: Opportunities for Collaboration and Transformation
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Learn to craft a competitive Statement of Grant Purpose for the Fulbright US Student Grant Program.
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
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Centered on the theme of connection, this Rest Lab will encourage visitors to explore rest as a way of sharing, listening, and responding to each other’s needs in community.
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The Communications Office has opened a pop-up shop selling Beckman apparel. Find it at: https://go.beckman.illinois.edu/apparel
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We’re accepting entries from undergrads, grad students, postdocs/staff researchers, and faculty members. We also will allow images captured within our core research facilities by non-Beckman affiliates. Read the full rules and submit your image here: http://go.beckman.illinois.edu/imgcontest.
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Digital literacy is the ability to apply IT and digital technology to find, understand, evaluate, communicate, and create information. Digital literacy skills are just as important as self-regulated learning behaviors. In this workshop you will develop strategies to promote digital literacy among your students for their learning in your course and beyond.
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Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall 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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In this 2-hour instructor led InDesign workshop, participants will learn how to create and open InDesign documents, navigate the user interface, modify a document, import graphics, and manipulate basic text and text frames and create a postcard in the process. No prior knowledge of InDesign is required. Pre-registration is required.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
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Centered on the theme of connection, this Rest Lab will encourage visitors to explore rest as a way of sharing, listening, and responding to each other’s needs in community.
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We have many options for scheduling online meetings these days. We will use Outlook for a central place to keep track of several kinds of online meetings and to make sure we have reminders. We will look at recommendations for scheduling with Zoom and Teams. We will go over helpful tips for each platform, including scheduling as a delegate. Prereq: Outlook Calendar workshop
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Associate Professor, Physiology, Molecular, and Cellular Biology
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In this 2-hour instructor-led workshop, participants will learn how to use Adobe Express (Adobe's online design tool) to create social media posts, customize photos, create a flyer and use the new Generative AI tools. No prior knowledge of Adobe Express is required. Pre-registration required.
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Join us for coffee and snacks as we create colorful paper requests that will fill up the space and build connections.
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In this two-hour Illustrator session, we will go over recommended resources and tutorials, then participants will be introduced to the user interface while creating a vector graphic logo.
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Learn to craft a competitive Personal Statement for the Fulbright US Student Grant Program.
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Join us for coffee and snacks as we create colorful paper requests that will fill up the space and build connections.
Friday, April 19, 2024
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Centered on the theme of connection, this Rest Lab will encourage visitors to explore rest as a way of sharing, listening, and responding to each other’s needs in community.
Saturday, April 20, 2024
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Centered on the theme of connection, this Rest Lab will encourage visitors to explore rest as a way of sharing, listening, and responding to each other’s needs in community.
Sunday, April 21, 2024
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Centered on the theme of connection, this Rest Lab will encourage visitors to explore rest as a way of sharing, listening, and responding to each other’s needs in community.
Monday, April 22, 2024
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Centered on the theme of connection, this Rest Lab will encourage visitors to explore rest as a way of sharing, listening, and responding to each other’s needs in community.
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Aya Gomaa will lecture "Neural Foundations for Theory of Mind."
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Keynote speaker Dr. Stephen Boppart, Interim Director of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute (IHSI), Professor and Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering; Remarks from Susan Martinis, Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation and Praveen Kumar, Executive Director of the Prairie Research Institute. Light refreshments will be provided.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
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Centered on the theme of connection, this Rest Lab will encourage visitors to explore rest as a way of sharing, listening, and responding to each other’s needs in community.
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Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Coffee Connections will take place every other Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.
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In this 2-hour InDesign workshop, participants will learn how to create a two-page InDesign brochure from scratch, import graphics, and manipulate basic text and text frames. No prior knowledge of InDesign is required. Offered in-person or online. Pre-registration required
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During this two-hour session, we will go over the basics of the Photoshop interface and some resources on how to continue learning features. Instructor will work through a beginner tutorial, editing a photo and share resources. Q & A to follow.
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NCSA will showcase the research conducted by students at NCSA and UIUC. This conference also presents the opportunity to network with NCSA researchers, faculty affiliates and industry partners.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
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Centered on the theme of connection, this Rest Lab will encourage visitors to explore rest as a way of sharing, listening, and responding to each other’s needs in community.
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The Communications Office has opened a pop-up shop selling Beckman apparel. Find it at: https://go.beckman.illinois.edu/apparel
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We’re accepting entries from undergrads, grad students, postdocs/staff researchers, and faculty members. We also will allow images captured within our core research facilities by non-Beckman affiliates. Read the full rules and submit your image here: http://go.beckman.illinois.edu/imgcontest.
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Calling all faculty and teaching assistants who are currently using or are interested in using alternative methods for grading (i.e. Labor based grading, Ungrading) in their courses. Join faculty members Kary Zarate (Education) and Clara Bosak-Schroeder (Classics) for an informal discussion about their assessment practices.
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Undergraduates of any major are invited to this informal lunch talk with Joy Harjo, (23rd United States Poet Laureate; member of the Muscogee [Creek] Nation). Advanced registration required.
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"Introducing Spatial Transcriptomics to Core Facilities: A Custom Built MERFISH Microscope " Duncan Nall, Research Scientist Core Facilities
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Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall 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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In this 2-hour instructor led workshop we will explore the Visio interface and create graphics. Visio comes with diagram-specific shapes and tools that enable you to quickly create professional-looking flowcharts, organization charts, timelines, & more. We will learn how to create some basic shapes, and connect, distribute, and align them. Pre-registration required
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Participate in the Tamarkoz method: "the art of self-knowledge through concentration and meditation." Please dress comfortably and bring a yoga mat (chairs will also be available if preferred). The instructor is Dr. Saloumeh DeGood, a practicing clinical psychologist, researcher and President of the Sufi Psychology Association. She currently teaches graduate courses on str
Thursday, April 25, 2024
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Centered on the theme of connection, this Rest Lab will encourage visitors to explore rest as a way of sharing, listening, and responding to each other’s needs in community.
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The "21st Annual Workshop on Charm++ and its Applications" will take place April 25-26 at the Siebel Center for Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Attendees may also participate via Zoom after registering.
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In this 2-hour course, we will spend time adjusting images in Photoshop, using Adjustment Layers, and explore several kinds of image adjustments. We will also explore image editing in a non-destructive manner.
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Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
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Join fellow grad students at Krannert Uncorked with Lyric Theater @ Illinois.
Friday, April 26, 2024
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Centered on the theme of connection, this Rest Lab will encourage visitors to explore rest as a way of sharing, listening, and responding to each other’s needs in community.
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The "21st Annual Workshop on Charm++ and its Applications" will take place April 25-26 at the Siebel Center for Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Attendees may also participate via Zoom after registering.
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Join us for coffee and snacks as we create colorful paper requests that will fill up the space and build connections.
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Learn to craft competitive statements for the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant program.
Monday, April 29, 2024
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Join us in a hybrid session where we will discuss best practices for setting up a Teams online meeting as well as joining the meeting. We'll cover the capabilities of meetings in Teams in addition to requirements and planning considerations for Teams. This session is aimed for beginner users of Teams. Pre-registration required.
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The STC for Quantitative Cell Biology Seminar Series continues with Luke Chao, Harvard University, will lecture on "Ultrastructural regulation of the mitochondrial inner-membrane"
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
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Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Coffee Connections will take place every other Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.
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Join us in a one-hour online session to explore some advanced features of Zoom. Features covered will include breakout rooms, setting a virtual background, recording, and more. Link sent if registered by 8 am.
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In this 2-hour InDesign workshop, participants will learn the basics of adding interactivity to your Adobe InDesign documents, including adding links, buttons, animation, and sharing your interactive document. Basic knowledge of InDesign is required. Pre-registration required. (Participants can choose between online or in-person after registration)
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
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We’re accepting entries from undergrads, grad students, postdocs/staff researchers, and faculty members. We also will allow images captured within our core research facilities by non-Beckman affiliates. Read the full rules and submit your image here: http://go.beckman.illinois.edu/imgcontest.
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In this two-hour Illustrator session, we will go over recommended resources and tutorials, then participants will be introduced to the user interface while creating a vector graphic logo.
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"Creating Art of Science" Julia Pollack, Creative Program Manager Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
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Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall 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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In this 2-hour workshop, participants will learn the basics of using the drawing tools in Adobe Illustrator CC, including how to use the Pencil and Curvature tools, how to edit paths. Then we will look at layers, including how to create, edit, and organize content. We will also learn the basics of transforming and editing artwork in Illustrator. Pre-registration required.
Thursday, May 2, 2024
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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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Learn how to create and edit OneNote notebooks, search and export notes. We will explore the use and management of sections and pages including section groups and subpages. We will enter data into OneNote from a variety of sources, from existing documents to webpages. We will discuss merits of embedding spreadsheets or linking.
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In this two-hour live Photoshop session, we will cover working with selections in preparation to edit images. Participants can select online or in-person.
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Creating, storing, and updating organizational charts can be a time-consuming task. Using software that is designed for visualizing information aids the process. Visio can even generate a diagram that adds the shapes and connectors for you from data that is stored in an Excel workbook. In this workshop attendees will create simple org charts, and pull from excel.
Friday, May 3, 2024
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Creating, storing, and updating organizational charts can be a time-consuming task. Using software that is designed for visualizing information aids the process. Visio can even generate a diagram that adds the shapes and connectors for you from data that is stored in an Excel workbook. In this workshop attendees will create simple org charts, and pull from excel.
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Learn to craft a compelling fellowship proposal.
Saturday, May 4, 2024
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Creating, storing, and updating organizational charts can be a time-consuming task. Using software that is designed for visualizing information aids the process. Visio can even generate a diagram that adds the shapes and connectors for you from data that is stored in an Excel workbook. In this workshop attendees will create simple org charts, and pull from excel.