Urbana Campus Research Calendar (OVCRI)

The ancient poet Sappho coined "sweetbitter" in one of her most evocative verses, still striking us to the heart nearly three millennia later. As with so many ancient figures, the poet is more legend than person today, her story told and retold even as her poetry continues to enchant and move. This exhibit will be on display through mid-August 2026.

Exhibitions include: “Another Place: Storymaking the Entangled Prairie” and “Memorias de la Mujer Lotina: Arpilleras, Women, and Coal in Chile.” The museum is open Tuesday through Friday (10–5) and Saturday (10–4) during Spring Break. Admission is always free. Parking access is easy during school breaks.

3rd Wednesd‑AI; A Monthly Learning Community for AI Exploration 3rd Wednesd‑AI is a hands-on space to learn, practice, and play while building AI skills together. Stay current on AI developments, experiment with new tools, and share discoveries with colleagues in a supportive environment. Bring your lunch, laptop, and curiosity. Learn together. Try new things. Have fun!

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!

The Office of Data Science Research (ODSR) is launching a new workshop support fund to provide financial and in-kind support to organizers of events on the Urbana-Champaign campus. This competitive process supports new multi-disciplinary and/or multi-unit collaborative activities around data science-focused research.

Science on Tap is a monthly seminar series that brings scientists to the public to talk about their research in an informal setting.

Graduate Student Homotopy Theory Seminar

Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.

Speaker: Benjamin Nussbaum, Kwiat Group

Please join Library Trends for a thoughtful discussion on how the intersection of technology and reality is reshaping the roles of librarians in education. The guest editors and authors of select articles from 74 (3), "Data Literacy: Navigating the Shift from Hype to Reality" will be presenting their research.

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!

Oraya Zinder, PhD Candidate Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois

This Virtual Brown Bag presents the issues involved in decolonizing African collections, explores global collaborations to advance equitable knowledge ecosystems, and considers models and networks of Diamond Open Access that ensure that African scholarship is produced and distributed under the principle of global equity.

Speaker: TBD

Chief, Section on the Neural Circuits of Emotion and Motivation

Sharing Your Research Story is a practical session helping LAS faculty translate research for public audiences. Learn how LAS communications supports external visibility, what research fits promotion, and how to partner efficiently. March 26, 12–1 PM CT. Hybrid.

Our guests will help us understand University of Illinois policies on data transfer and use agreements and software licensing agreements so that faculty and staff have a better understanding of how to work with collaborators when sharing data science-related data and code.

Speaker: Yue Liu (Purdue University)

Dr. Anastassios Antonaras (Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki,) places Byzantine glass in context to a wider Mediterranean tradition where it emerges as a powerful medium of splendor, authority, and sacred presence.

An informative roundtable conversation about the use of Gen AI in students' educational journeys, personal lives, and career preparations. Several students from the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center (BNAACC) will share how they use Gen AI as learning tool, remain aware of AI's cultural impacts in society, and build AI skills for career preparations.

Do you weave, crochet, knit, felt, or embroider? Bring your project and join us for a weaver’s circle in the galleries. All ages and experience levels are welcome! First-time knitter? A limited amount of yarn and needles will be available—and anyone wanting to learn can receive a simple knitting lesson. Free and open to everyone. *Parking nearby is free on weekends.*

Graduate Student Homotopy Theory Seminar

Speaker: Henry Yuen, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University

Speaker: Anjali Nair (U Chicago)

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Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.

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!

“Tuning surface interactions of two-dimensional materials in dry and wet environments” Gus Greenwood, PhD Candidate Prof. Rosa Espinosa-Marzal’s Environmental Engineering Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois

Speaker: TBD

Speaker: Olivia Clifton (University of Illinois)

This talk introduces medieval Sicily in its Muslim period, focusing on how this history was experienced, archived, imagined, and remembered by its native poets and writers, as well as the travelers who visited the island, during its political and cultural apogee, and the later years under the domination of the Norman kings.

In this talk, we will report on our effort to test this hypothesis: is it possible to "excel" in a course without absolutely any knowledge? We show that, while there is variability across courses and assignment types, large language models are indeed often able to achieve a strong grade in a course without any meaningful help from human users or course material.

Join us for a lecture by Andrea Scarantino, a professor of Neuroscience and Philosophy at Georgia State University.

Graduate Student Homotopy Theory Seminar

This talk will highlight the Kinsey Institute’s founding and multi-disciplinary history, continued cultural impact, current research program, and reflect on the ways in which today’s social and political climate presents new challenges for multi-disciplinary sex research.

Our Mr. Matsura, a feature documentary film, is the story of photographer Frank Matsura who journeyed from his native Japan to live in rural Washington State in the early 1900s. The film presents a picture of the “frontier” that departs from the existing popular culture narrative and celebrates the singular contribution of a community-building immigrant artist in America.

Speaker: Zheshen Zhang, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan

Speaker: Rick Laugesen (UIUC)

Speaker: Anna Honeycutt, Chitambar Group

“Creating Art of Science” Julia Pollack, Creative Program Manager Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois

Speaker: TBD

Join Carle's Bruce Damon and Dr. Christina Laukaitis for a seminar on, "Mechanistic biomarkers of knee function in hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome."