Research Technology Master Calendar

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Sunday, September 28, 2025

Monday, September 29, 2025

  • Image of students who were on the trip in a previous year
    • 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

    • All Day
    • Main Library Orange Room

    • 12:00 - 4:00 pm
    • Innovation 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.

    • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
    • 2203 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.

    • 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.

  • I'm a Savvy Researcher! go.illinois.edu/SR
    • 2:00 - 3:00 pm

    Are 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

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Thursday, October 2, 2025

Friday, October 3, 2025

Saturday, October 4, 2025

  • Image of students who were on the trip in a previous year
    • 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

    • All Day
    • Main 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.

    • All Day
    • Main Library

    • 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
    • Krannert 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.

  • Beckman STEM Crawl graphic
    • 11:00
    • Downtown Champaign

    Visit 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.

    • 11:00 am - 3:30 pm
    • Multiple locations

    Join 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.

    • 11:00 am - 3:30 pm
    • Multiple locations

    Join 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.

  • Humanities open house. Saturday, October 4. 11 AM to 3:30 PM. Explore the best of humanities on our campus! Resource fair, interactive department events, alumni panel, video contest awards, prize drawings. Plus: live performances, free food, and more! Presented by the college of liberal arts and sciences, the humanities research institute, and the University library. Full schedule and locations: go.illinois.edu/humanitiesopenhouse
    • 1:00 - 1:50 pm
    • Main Library, 1408 W Gregory Dr., Champaign

Sunday, October 5, 2025

Monday, October 6, 2025

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Thursday, October 9, 2025

Friday, October 10, 2025

Saturday, October 11, 2025

  • Register for Founders Week October 8-11, 2025
    • All Day
    • Research Park

    Founders Week celebrates our collective entrepreneurial successes and showcases the innovative ecosystem that fosters groundbreaking ventures.

    • 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
    • Krannert 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.

    • 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
    • Lincoln Square Mall, South Hallway

Sunday, October 12, 2025

    • 2:00 pm
    • Spurlock 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

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Thursday, October 16, 2025

Friday, October 17, 2025

Saturday, October 18, 2025

    • 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
    • Lincoln 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.

  • Illini Fest. October 18, 2025
    • 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
    • Illini Union | Main Library

    Join 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.)

    • 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
    • Japan 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.

    • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
    • Krannert 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

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Thursday, October 23, 2025

Friday, October 24, 2025

Monday, October 27, 2025

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Thursday, October 30, 2025

Friday, October 31, 2025