UIF Master Calendar

  • All Day    2/16/2026 - 3/15/2026
    Main Library, 3rd Floor, Rooms 309 & 321

    This exhibition presents a selection of Chinese nianhua and related images exploring Lunar New Year themes and the horse, offering a glimpse into the hopes, stories, and celebrations they carry. May you enjoy an energetic and fruitful year ahead.

  • BE A SAVVY RESEARCHER The University Library offers a wide array of workshops for you to develop your research and information management skills. All are welcome!
    10:00 - 11:00 am    3/4/2026

    Are 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!

  • BE A SAVVY RESEARCHER The University Library offers a wide array of workshops for you to develop your research and information management skills. All are welcome!
    12:00 - 1:00 pm    3/4/2026
    Room 106, Main Library

    AI tools can write essays, summarize articles, and generate convincing images in seconds– but how can you tell when text (or images) were created by a machine rather than a human? In this interactive workshop, we’ll explore how generative AI works and why detecting AI-generated content is difficult to automate.

  • 12:00 pm    3/4/2026
    Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower

    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!

  • 10:30 - 11:15 am    3/5/2026
    Beckman Institute Center Atrium

  • 1:00 pm    3/5/2026
    Beckman Room 1005

    Presentation by Paul Weavers from Vision

  • 2:00 - 3:00 pm    3/5/2026
    Lucy Ellis Lounge in LCLB and online via Zoom

  • BE A SAVVY RESEARCHER The University Library offers a wide array of workshops for you to develop your research and information management skills. All are welcome!
    3:00 - 4:00 pm    3/5/2026

    The 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 graduate students.

  • BE A SAVVY RESEARCHER The University Library offers a wide array of workshops for you to develop your research and information management skills. All are welcome!
    3:00 - 4:00 pm    3/5/2026

    MAXQDA is a robust software for analyzing qualitative data, including text, media, and survey data. The software is free for all University of Illinois users via a license provided by Illinois Computes. Learn how to use activation to view data for specific codes and documents, use reports, and more.

  • 5:00 - 7:00 pm    3/5/2026
    302 Architecture Building

  • 6:00 - 7:30 pm    3/5/2026
    Krannert 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.

  • BE A SAVVY RESEARCHER The University Library offers a wide array of workshops for you to develop your research and information management skills. All are welcome!
    10:00 am - 12:00 pm    3/7/2026

    Taguette is a free and open-source tool for coding and analyzing text data. In this workshop, we’ll use Taguette and secondary data from the Qualitative Data Repository to practice developing and applying codes to interview data.

  • BE A SAVVY RESEARCHER The University Library offers a wide array of workshops for you to develop your research and information management skills. All are welcome!
    11:00 am - 12:00 pm    3/9/2026
    Room 314, Main Library

    Looking 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 other str

  • 10:00 - 10:30 am    3/10/2026
    Beckman Institute Center Atrium

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

  • BE A SAVVY RESEARCHER The University Library offers a wide array of workshops for you to develop your research and information management skills. All are welcome!
    2:00 - 3:00 pm    3/10/2026
    Room 314, Main Library

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a future feature of academic research; it is already embedded in the library databases that many researchers use daily. This workshop provides a practical and critical introduction to how AI operates within platforms such as ProQuest and JSTOR, including how it shapes search results, generates summaries, and suggests topics.

  • 9:00 - 10:30 am    3/11/2026
    LCLB 2090B

  • 12:00 pm    3/11/2026
    Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower

    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!

  • 12:00 pm    3/11/2026
    3057 Lincoln Hall; 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL

  • 3:00 pm    3/12/2026
    Atrium

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

  • BE A SAVVY RESEARCHER The University Library offers a wide array of workshops for you to develop your research and information management skills. All are welcome!
    3:00 - 4:30 pm    3/12/2026

    We 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).

  • 12:00 pm    3/18/2026
    Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower

    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!

  • BE A SAVVY RESEARCHER The University Library offers a wide array of workshops for you to develop your research and information management skills. All are welcome!
    3:00 - 4:30 pm    3/19/2026

    We 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).

  • 12:00 pm    3/23/2026
    3057 Lincoln Hall; 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL

  • BE A SAVVY RESEARCHER The University Library offers a wide array of workshops for you to develop your research and information management skills. All are welcome!
    2:00 - 3:00 pm    3/23/2026
    Room 314, Main Library

    Qualitative 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.

  • 12:00 pm    3/25/2026
    Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower

    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!

  • BE A SAVVY RESEARCHER The University Library offers a wide array of workshops for you to develop your research and information management skills. All are welcome!
    2:00 - 3:00 pm    3/25/2026
    Room 314, Main Library

    Keeping meals both affordable and enjoyable can be tricky, but we don’t need to take on these responsibilities alone! This workshop is designed to cover the basics of how to incorporate AI into food budgeting practices, including meal planning, grocery lists, and more.

  • BE A SAVVY RESEARCHER The University Library offers a wide array of workshops for you to develop your research and information management skills. All are welcome!
    3:00 - 4:00 pm    3/25/2026

    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!

  • BE A SAVVY RESEARCHER The University Library offers a wide array of workshops for you to develop your research and information management skills. All are welcome!
    3:00 - 4:00 pm    3/26/2026

    Qualitative 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.

  • 5:00 - 6:00 pm    3/26/2026
    LCLB 2090B

  • 2:00 pm    3/27/2026
    Noyes Lab 161

  • 9:00 am    3/28/2026
    Main Library | Grainger Engineering Library Information Center | Funk ACES Library | Music and Performing Arts Library

    The Library has several locations open to welcome admitted students. Stop by to learn more about the libraries at Illinois.

  • BE A SAVVY RESEARCHER The University Library offers a wide array of workshops for you to develop your research and information management skills. All are welcome!
    11:00 am - 12:00 pm    3/30/2026
    Funk ACES Library, Room 509

    Web 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.

  • BE A SAVVY RESEARCHER The University Library offers a wide array of workshops for you to develop your research and information management skills. All are welcome!
    2:00 - 3:00 pm    3/30/2026
    Room 314, Main Library

    MAXQDA is a robust software for analyzing qualitative data, including text, media, and survey data. By the end of this workshop, we hope you'll be able to import survey data from a spreadsheet into a MAXQDA project; set up survey questions as codable data, variables, or both; use manual and automatic coding tools to code text data in survey responses and more.

  • BE A SAVVY RESEARCHER The University Library offers a wide array of workshops for you to develop your research and information management skills. All are welcome!
    2:00 - 3:00 pm    3/31/2026

    Looking 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.

  • BE A SAVVY RESEARCHER The University Library offers a wide array of workshops for you to develop your research and information management skills. All are welcome!
    4:00 - 5:00 pm    3/31/2026

    Looking 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.

  • 6:00 - 7:30 pm    3/31/2026
    LCLB 1080, (707 S. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801)

  • BE A SAVVY RESEARCHER The University Library offers a wide array of workshops for you to develop your research and information management skills. All are welcome!
    11:00 am - 12:00 pm    4/1/2026
    Room 314, Main Library

    Navigating the social and academic expectations of college is a challenge for many new college students, where unexplained conventions can cause many to feel stress and confusion about the way the higher education environment functions.

  • 12:00 - 1:00 pm    4/1/2026
    Lucy Ellis Lounge (LCLB 1080) and online (TBA)

  • 12:00 pm    4/1/2026
    Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower

    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!

  • BE A SAVVY RESEARCHER The University Library offers a wide array of workshops for you to develop your research and information management skills. All are welcome!
    1:00 - 2:00 pm    4/1/2026
    Room 314, Main Library

    Infographics can be a very effective way to convey small bits of information very quickly, while drawing viewers in because of their visual appeal. In this workshop students will learn about best practices for creating infographics, as well as what to avoid.

  • BE A SAVVY RESEARCHER The University Library offers a wide array of workshops for you to develop your research and information management skills. All are welcome!
    3:00 - 4:00 pm    4/2/2026

    MAXQDA is a robust software for analyzing qualitative data, including text, media, and survey data. By the end of this workshop, we hope you'll be able to import survey data from a spreadsheet into a MAXQDA project; set up survey questions as codable data, variables, or both; use manual and automatic coding tools to code text data in survey responses and more.

  • BE A SAVVY RESEARCHER The University Library offers a wide array of workshops for you to develop your research and information management skills. All are welcome!
    3:00 - 4:00 pm    4/2/2026

    The 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 graduate students.

  • 5:00 - 7:00 pm    4/2/2026
    LCLB 1080, (707 S. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801)

  • 10:30 - 11:15 am    4/6/2026
    Beckman Institute East Atrium

  • BE A SAVVY RESEARCHER The University Library offers a wide array of workshops for you to develop your research and information management skills. All are welcome!
    1:00 - 2:00 pm    4/7/2026

    Systematic reviews require a careful and structured approach to reviewing existing literature and identifying new insights. As scholarly publications continue to grow rapidly across disciplines, AI tools offer new ways for researchers to keep up with the expanding literature.

  • BE A SAVVY RESEARCHER The University Library offers a wide array of workshops for you to develop your research and information management skills. All are welcome!
    11:00 am - 12:00 pm    4/8/2026
    Room 314, Main Library

    Managing your time and keeping track of all your tasks as a busy college student can be tricky, but new AI tools can take off some of the pressure of remembering it all! This workshop is designed to familiarize learners with a few handy tools and strategies for using AI to maximize productivity and minimize stress.

  • BE A SAVVY RESEARCHER The University Library offers a wide array of workshops for you to develop your research and information management skills. All are welcome!
    10:00 - 11:00 am    4/9/2026

    Infographics can be a very effective way to convey small bits of information very quickly, while drawing viewers in because of their visual appeal. In this workshop students will learn about best practices for creating infographics, as well as what to avoid.

  • BE A SAVVY RESEARCHER The University Library offers a wide array of workshops for you to develop your research and information management skills. All are welcome!
    11:00 am - 12:00 pm    4/9/2026
    CITL Innovation Studio, Armory 172

    Throughout 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? In this session we distill the magic that just might take your next presentation from bland to grand.

  • 5:00 - 6:00 pm    4/9/2026
    LCLB 2090B

  • 3:00 pm    4/10/2026
    I Hotel and Conference Center, Alma Mater Room

  • 5:30 pm    4/10/2026
    112/114 Huff Hall

  • BE A SAVVY RESEARCHER The University Library offers a wide array of workshops for you to develop your research and information management skills. All are welcome!
    11:00 am - 12:00 pm    4/14/2026

    Attendees will become familiar with the differences between a dissertation and first book manuscript, and will further learn about identifying points of revision, creating a revision plan/timeline, approaching editors/presses, writing a book proposal, and the publishing process at a glance.

  • BE A SAVVY RESEARCHER The University Library offers a wide array of workshops for you to develop your research and information management skills. All are welcome!
    3:00 - 4:00 pm    4/14/2026

    A 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.

  • 6:00 - 7:30 pm    4/14/2026
    LCLB 1080, (707 S. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801)

  • 9:00 - 10:30 am    4/15/2026
    LCLB 2090B

  • BE A SAVVY RESEARCHER The University Library offers a wide array of workshops for you to develop your research and information management skills. All are welcome!
    11:00 am - 12:00 pm    4/15/2026
    Room 314, Main Library

    Are you curious about how the library can support you in accessing free resources for self-care? Would you like to know more about self-care but are unsure where to start? This workshop will facilitate discussion about self-care strategies and will provide opportunities to search for free resources (online and in print) that can support your personal self-care practices.

  • 12:00 pm    4/15/2026
    Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower

    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!

  • 3:00 pm    4/16/2026
    Atrium

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

  • 5:00 - 7:00 pm    4/16/2026
    302 Architecture Building

  • BE A SAVVY RESEARCHER The University Library offers a wide array of workshops for you to develop your research and information management skills. All are welcome!
    11:00 am - 12:00 pm    4/22/2026
    Room 314, Main Library

    Tired of hearing advice about highlighting your notes and writing lists? There are lots of study tips out there, but they don't work for everyone, especially if you're neurodivergent. This workshop is for those who find that popular advice doesn't work for them to learn new study habits, such as reading tips, time tricks, and building habits on uplifting strengths.

  • 12:00 pm    4/22/2026
    3057 Lincoln Hall; 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL

  • 12:00 pm    4/22/2026
    Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower

    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!

  • BE A SAVVY RESEARCHER The University Library offers a wide array of workshops for you to develop your research and information management skills. All are welcome!
    1:00 - 2:00 pm    4/22/2026
    Room 314, Main Library

    Did you know that over half of college students worry about being able to afford their course materials? Are you wondering how you can create a budget-friendly course for students? This workshop will introduce you to Library and campus resources you can share with students to help them save money on textbooks, articles, technology, and other materials.

  • 5:00 - 7:00 pm    4/22/2026
    4080 LCLB

  • 12:00 pm    4/29/2026
    Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower

    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!

  • 5:30 pm    4/30/2026
    I Hotel and Conference Center, Heritage Rooms 2 and 5

  • 11:30 am    5/1/2026
    I Hotel and Conference Center, Chancellor Ballroom

  • 9:30 am    5/5/2026
    MRI Exhibit

    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 Tuesday of the month from 9:30-10 a.m.

  • 9:00 - 10:30 am    5/6/2026
    LCLB 2090B

  • 12:00 pm    5/6/2026
    Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower

    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!

  • 12:00 pm    5/7/2026
    3057 Lincoln Hall; 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL

    Dr. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Sociology Duke University

  • 12:00 pm    5/13/2026
    Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower

    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!

  • 12:00 pm    5/20/2026
    Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower

    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!

  • 3:00 pm    5/21/2026
    Atrium

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

  • All Day    5/26/2026 - 5/30/2026
    Salt Lake City, UT

  • 12:00 pm    5/27/2026
    Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower

    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!

  • 9:30 am    6/2/2026
    MRI Exhibit

    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 Tuesday of the month from 9:30-10 a.m.

  • 12:00 pm    6/3/2026
    Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower

    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!

  • 12:00 pm    6/10/2026
    Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower

    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!

  • 12:00 pm    6/17/2026
    Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower

    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!

  • 12:00 pm    6/24/2026
    Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower

    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!

  • 9:30 am    7/7/2026
    MRI Exhibit

    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 Tuesday of the month from 9:30-10 a.m.

  • 9:30 am    8/4/2026
    MRI Exhibit

    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 Tuesday of the month from 9:30-10 a.m.

  • 9:30 am    9/1/2026
    MRI Exhibit

    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 Tuesday of the month from 9:30-10 a.m.