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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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Teaching With AI Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way we learn, work, and think. Its integration into classrooms and workplaces is already underway, impacting and challenging ideas about creativity, authorship, and education. In this groundbreaking and practical guide, teachers will discover how to harness and manage AI as a powerful teaching tool.
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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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In this workshop, we'll explore the basics of learning and memory, and identify what we can do as teachers to help our students learn and remember course material.
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Join us at McKinley Foundation Artists' Alley for the Opening Reception of Between Us, an exhibition that shines a spotlight on BIPOC communities that have long been marginalized or overlooked, capturing the essence of its people, landscapes, and cultures with honesty and reverence.
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Jason Dean (Linda Hall Library) will join us via Zoom to discuss the incident in which John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal, burned copies of his own astronomical work, Historia Coelestis.
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February Dance 2025 celebrates the fierce commitment to artistic innovation in the Department of Dance. Works by Associate Professor Paige Cunningham Caldarella and MFA alumna Anna Peretz Rogovoy (’24), Professor Rebecca Nettl-Fiol and two MFA thesis works by Gabriel Bruno Eng Gonzalez and Banafsheh Amiri are included in the concert.
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Jeremy Brecher, author of "The Green New Deal From Below: How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy" will speak on his new book and research followed by a Q&A session.
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The Humanities Without Walls Summer Bridge program supports PhD students in the humanities at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in exploring new career paths while making an impact in our community. Join us at this info session for more information about this opportunity.
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Learn the basics of gen AI text models, such as Microsoft Copilot and Chat GPT, and use them to improve your workflow, teaching aid creation, and more.
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Debbie J. Goldman will discuss her book "Disconnected: Call Center Workers Fight for Good Jobs in the Digital Age." She will be joined in conversation by Gabriel Winant. A Q&A and book signing will follow the discussion.
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
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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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The HRI Organize & Analyze: Social Movements Reading Group will discuss readings, films, plays, and poems on global working class social movements to inform our intellectual development, political education, and praxis.
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
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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.
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Come to this workshop to learn how to design, implement, and interpret Informal Early Feedback (IEF) to improve the class experience for everyone.
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This presentation discusses what we can learn from Zapotec literary magazines published in Mexico and Oaxaca in the 20th century. Angelica will share about the personal connections to her research, her journey as a researcher, and her current book project, highlighting the relationship between Zapotec knowledge, language, and literature.
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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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Dr. Samantha Ege, author of "South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene", will be speaking at King’s College London about her new book.
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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. Pre-registration required.
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Are you interested in expanding your global connections, working abroad, or learning about funding opportunities for international projects? Join us for an informative session on how the Global Relations unit can assist in facilitating your global relations and advancing your international work.
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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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A reading and book launch by Creative Writing faculty members David Wright Faladé and Chris Kempf.
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Anastasiia Strakhova (Associate Director, Program of Jewish Culture & Society) explores the little-known reality that 75–90% of Jewish emigration from the late Russian Empire occurred illegally. This lecture examines the widespread practice of clandestine border crossings and why so many Jewish emigrants chose illegal routes despite legal options being available.
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Learn the accessibility requirements for making your Moodle courses accessible. This hands-on workshop covers creating accessible navigation, headings, tables, lists, and hyperlinks, how to write alt text for images, generate and edit video captions, as well as the advantages (and limitations) of using Moodle’s accessibility checker and screen reader helper.
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Recalling My Higher Education Journey and Pathway Into Stem: Insights from an Indigenous scientist. Friday, Feb.7, 2025. 2 PM
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On February 7, the Geography Graduate Student Association (GGSA) and the Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science (GGIS) will host Dr. Charmaine Chua (Global Studies, UC Santa Barbara) to deliver a talk titled The Logistics Counter-revolution: Fast Circulation, Slow Violence, and the Transpacific Empire of Circulation. This will be a hybrid event.
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
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Join Mia Mask, author and season programmer at the British Film Institute, and special guests for a discussion about African American westerns, followed by a book signing of "Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western."
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The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Grainger College of Engineering will host the LAS/ENG Undergraduate Research Opportunities Fair. We are seeking representatives from research groups, centers, institutes, and programs to present and promote undergraduate research opportunities in the humanities, social sciences, and STEM.
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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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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
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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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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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Reflecting and implementing what you have learned from informal student feedback, such as IEF, and formal student feedback, such as ICES, is a valuable process and part of our campus efforts to document teaching excellence. We will share how to maximize gathering and analyzing the formal and informal student feedback.
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Lunch launch of HGMS and German Professor Anke Pinkert’s new book, Remembering 1989.
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Please join us for the CSBS Open House on February 12 to connect with other social and behavioral science researchers, talk with the CSBS staff, and see our new office space and facilities in the NCSA Building.
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Although its usefulness as such a metric is debatable, the notion of accuracy itself still organizes much of the thinking about AI. In an analysis of FORDISC, a database of skull measurements used to identify human remains, Iris Clever demonstrates how a focus on accuracy might struggle to account for the entwined relationship between humanity, science, and technology.
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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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The LAS Office of Research and Department of History will offer the spring program, “From Scholars to Storytellers” an introduction to the world of trade publishing. Sessions will be led by Dr. John Ghazvinian, an author, historian and former journalist. Space is limited. To learn more or register for any part of this event, visit our website by Feb. 6th.
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Teaching With AI Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way we learn, work, and think. Its integration into classrooms and workplaces is already underway, impacting and challenging ideas about creativity, authorship, and education. In this groundbreaking and practical guide, teachers will discover how to harness and manage AI as a powerful teaching tool.
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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. Pre-registration is required.
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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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The PhD Program in Architecture and Landscape Architecture at UIUC will host Spaces of Nature / Natures of Space, an in-house graduate student symposium on Friday, February 14, 2025.
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
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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.
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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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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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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
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Disruptive student behaviors can present serious challenges to a positive learning environment. These challenging situations can occur in both face-to-face and online learning contexts. In this workshop you will learn effective strategies to deal with challenging situations and maintain the focus of your classroom on productive learning.
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This presentation will introduce the work of several Kalaallit Inuit artists whose careers began in the late 1970s, a period of heightened anticolonial activism in their homeland. Examining the connections between art and activism, my talk will discuss how Kalaallit artists have challenged colonial representations and asserted their right to self-definition.
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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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Our students are facing increasingly more complex problems whose solutions cannot be readily found in textbooks. Our responsibility is then to enable our students to approach issues through an inquiry-based instructional model in tackling authentic real-world problems. By using a Problem-based learning (PBL) model, we can help students in more creative brainstorming and hy
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Join Digital Humanities Librarian Mary Ton for a hands-on workshop on project design. We’ll discuss how a project charter can help you refine your research questions, identify models, and create a timeline. We’ll also identify tools to help you organize your citations, files, and photos.
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Join us for the 23rd Annual Women’s and Gender History Symposium: Gender and the Law, featuring graduate research and keynote speakers Dr. Neil J. Young (Historian, Writer, and Podcaster) and Dr. Laura Goffman (Professor of History, U of I). This will be a hybrid event. Learn more and register here: https://wghistory.web.illinois.edu/
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Looking to enhance your online course design? Join us for an engaging session where you'll discover how the Quality Matters (QM) rubric and resources can help you transform your online and hybrid courses. QM provides a rich set of tools and resources to guide you through improving online course quality and optimizing students' learning experiences.
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
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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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An important learning goal is for our students to think critically and to create imaginatively. Offering multimedia assignments integrating various media formats such as text, images, audio, and videos into cohesive projects. In this session, we will share the creative multimedia assignments that your colleagues developed to innovatively assess student learning.
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Teaching With AI Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way we learn, work, and think. Its integration into classrooms and workplaces is already underway, impacting and challenging ideas about creativity, authorship, and education. In this groundbreaking and practical guide, teachers will discover how to harness and manage AI as a powerful teaching tool.
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Are you interested in being a part of a critical reading collective? Consider registering for the Spring 2025 Native American House (NAH) Book Club!
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Based on two years of ethnographic interviews with patients of chronic illness and participant observation with practitioners of complementary medicine in California, this talk examines what “sensitivity” can provide as a source of information about the relationship between the individual and the environment, and how this impacts health.
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Community-engaged faculty across campus are invited to the next event in the Community-Engaged Research Series. Please join us Feb. 28 for an interactive workshop followed by a working lunch with Diane Doberneck, Director for Faculty and Professional Development in the Office for Public Engagement and Scholarship at Michigan State University.
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
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Come to this workshop to begin the process of identifying your teaching philosophy, deciding which parts of it belong in your statement, and avoiding common mistakes.
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The What Now? Series continues March 3rd (Monday) from 5:15-6:45pm at BNAAC (1212 W. Nevada Street). Confirmed speakers include Ciro Incoronato and Jessica Greenberg.
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Do you travel to present research in other countries? Do you collaborate with researchers at foreign institutions? If you answered “yes” to either of these questions, your research may be subject to export control policies.
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
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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=5885