College of LAS: For Faculty & Staff

HWW’s Career Diversity Summer workshop is a 2-week, immersive career diversity experience for 20 PhD students in the humanities. The workshop provides tools, values exercises, and space for individuals to imagine their professional futures.

Dr. Jayakrishnan Nandakumar, University of Michigan: "The story of human telomerase recruitment to the telomere: from the beginning to the end"

Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Pharmacology

Drawing from her research on hundreds on translational humanities responses to the pandemic from dozens of countries around the world, Professor Ostherr will offer new methods for addressing human health grounded in cultural and historical context.

Graduate students in the humanities, arts and related fields: you are cordially invited to join us for a casual, relaxed gathering on the first floor of Levis Faculty Center!

"Illini Science Policy Program: Using your knowledge and expertise at the intersection of policy and public service," Dr. Evangeline Pianfetti, UIUC

Assistant Professor, Cellular & Integrative Physiology

Alumnus Stephen Kocheril (BS, Chemistry, '16) is the recipient of Brown University Chemistry's Graduate Ambassador Award, which is given annually to graduate students who have demonstrated excellence in teaching, research, and service. Reception immediately following in Chem Annex 1025.

The Humanities Without Walls Grand Research Challenge (GRC) funds collaborative and interdisciplinary humanities research projects that demonstrate a commitment to methodologies of reciprocity and redistribution.

"Pomacea canaliculata: a new organism to study camera-type eye regeneration", Dr. Alice Accorsi, Stowers Institute for Medical Research

Associate Professor, Biochemistry in Medicine

Learn more about the Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Public Humanities, which is open to PhD and MFA students enrolled in humanities or arts terminal degree programs—including the humanities-inflected social sciences—from the Urbana-Champaign campus. This information session is appropriate for both interested graduate students and potential faculty mentors.

"What a journal editor does: the job and the publishing process," Dr. Luis Mejia, Nature Neuroscience