Urbana Campus Research Calendar (OVCRI)

Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois, at the Spurlock Museum of World Cultures, features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early 1990s for the AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment.

In Search of Lost Time: The study of Earth history and chronology from the 18th to the 21st century — RBML's Spring Exhibition in collaboration with the Department of Geology, on view from 1/24 - 6/22, 2022. This exhibit explores concepts of time, chronology, and history that form the lens through which Earth scientists view, understand, and interpret a dynamic planet.

Speaker: Jeff Thompson, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University

"Evaluating and working along environmental gradients to develop frameworks for understanding nuisance rodent ecology" Danielle Lee, PhD Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Assistant Professor of Biology

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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.

Debu Chakravarti, PhD, the Anna Lapham Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University will present a lecture on Epigenomic and Enhancer Dysfunction in Uterine Benign Tumorigenesis.

Agnieszka Lewandowska, Senior Research Scientist, Chemistry

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"Lessons on Parenting from Poison Frogs" Dr. Eva Fischer Assistant Professor, Ecology, Evolution and Behavior

Professor, Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine

A geomembrane-lined 8 meter high embankment surrounding a raw water reservoir for a thermal power plant in India suffered major breaches after just one year of operation. This webinar will elaborate on Dr. Bhowmik's post-failure field observations and seepage and stability analyses of the embankment.

Join Dr. Evelyne Accad for a talk about her book, House of Tenderness, a collection of five short stories recounting various forms of violence experienced by women in Lebanon. The stories center on the role of tenderness, as a guide understanding and reconstructing the inner house of the self.

Learn more about the conference and register at go.illinois.edu/SAALC

Join us for this poetry event, presented as a hybrid event, both in-person and online, as part of Reckless Law, Shameless Order: An Intimate Experience of Incarceration. The physical location is the hood classroom in Krannert Art Museum, to attend the virtual event, delivered via Zoom, registration is required (link in website).

Join us on Zoom for this virtual lecture by artist Emily Bivens, presented as part of the School of Art + Design Visitors Series. In this talk, I will discuss the cohabitation of animals and humans.

FSHN 597 Graduate Seminar Series  Presenter:  Mukund V. Karwe, PhD Professor and Chair Department of Food Science Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Title:  Modeling and simulation of transport phenomena to understand the process of food digestion in human GI tract

Unveiling the Hidden Web of Knowledge

Speaker: Chong Zu, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis

Brian Cunningham, PhD University of Illinois; Intel Alumni Endowed Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Director of the Center for Genomic Diagnostics "Digital Resolution Liquid Biopsy at the Point of Care"

The Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program and the Humanities Research Institute co-host this annual event bringing together faculty, staff, students, and community members to recognize people who have made a difference in academia. Each speaker will have five minutes to tell the story of a woman in their discipline who changed the field in important ways.

The Humanities Research Institute and The Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program co- host an annual event bringing together faculty, staff, students, and community members to recognize people who have made a difference in academia. Each speaker will have five minutes to tell the story of the woman in his or her discipline that changed the field in important ways.

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

Title: “Targeted agents, new and old. A story of epigenetic-mediated resistance and development of a holistic RNA delivery vehicle”

Receive an overview of responsible conduct of research practices and learn about data privacy and security from Phil Reiter, an associate director of privacy in the Office of the Chief Information Officer Technology Services.

“New generations transforming the food culture” Dina Fernandez, Global Director, Protein Nutrition Solutions, Archer Daniels Midland Company

Tenure-stream faculty who wish to learn more about the Interseminars initiative are encouraged to attend this info session.

Lerone A. Martin is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and the Martin Luther King, Jr., Centennial Chair and Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University.

Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Learn how the analysis of cancers in pet dogs and cats can help identify promising new anticancer drugs for humans. Dr. Timothy Fan, a veterinary oncologist, and cancer researcher, will walk us through the work being done at the Comparative Oncology Research Laboratory on a subject that has far-reaching implications for the human and animal worlds.

Join us for an Artist Talk by Debra Yepa-Pappan, a multidisciplinary artist who is based in Chicago and works as the Native AmericanCommunity Engagement Coordinator for the Field Museum.

FSHN 597 Graduate Seminar Series  Presenter:  Xinhe Huang PhD Candidate under the direction of Dr. Keith Cadwallader Title:  Comprehensive aroma characterization of silver (blanco) tequila

In this talk Professor Fominaya will provide some conceptual tools and examples to help activists think through the use of digital tools and the internet.

Unveiling the Hidden Web of Knowledge

Join us for the New Frontiers Initiative for an exciting webinar on March 15 @ 11 a.m. featuring NFI Fellow Adam Stewart. Come learn about TorchGeo, an open-source Python library for integrating geospatial data into the PyTorch ecosystem.

Learn how to use OpenACC to quickly develop GPU-capable codes using standard languages and compilers. OpenACC is used to accelerate real applications within very short development periods. Basic knowledge of either C or Fortran programming is required.

Join us for a half-day workshop to explore the development of cross-disciplinary interest and collaborations in the emerging field of “Spatial Omics” featuring short presentations about current and emerging technologies in molecular biology, “user perspectives” to glean new insights from spatially resolved measurements, and “analytics” talks to fill the analysis gap in the

Learn how Dr. Yu's team combined kinetic modeling with all-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulation to show most critical residue motions supporting the nucleotide "recognition" and selectivity, from phage T7 to SARSCoV2 viral replication

Speaker: Anne Broadbent, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Ottawa

Alessandra Eustaquio, PhD University of Illinois Chicago; Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy "From DNA to natural products via reverse genetics and synthetic biology"

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

Join our team of SBIR experts and the FAST (Federal and State Technology) Center of Illinois for a monthly SBIR 101 event from 12:00-1:00pm CT the fourth Wednesday of each month.

Receive an overview of responsible conduct of research practices and learn about human subjects research by Anita Balgopal, director in the Office for the Protection of Research Subjects.

Chandana Gopalakrishnappa, Graduate Research Assistant, Physics

The first annual Molecule Maker Lab Institute Symposium brings together MMLI members, industry partners, and the broader research community for three days of sharing, discussing, and brainstorming cutting-edge research at the interface of chemistry and artificial intelligence.

Assistant Professor, Department of Developmental Molecular and Chemical Biology

Dr. Hormuth II will present a framework for generating personalized forecasts of tumor and vasculature response with examples from high-grade gliomas in the pre-clinical and clinical settings.

The first annual Molecule Maker Lab Institute Symposium brings together MMLI members, industry partners, and the broader research community for three days of sharing, discussing, and brainstorming cutting-edge research at the interface of chemistry and artificial intelligence.

IGi Global STEAM is proud to sponsor Housing and Racial Justice panel, as part of the Infrastructure in Health and Environmental Inequalities, on Thursday, March 24, 2022 at 3pm. To register, please visit: https://go.illinois.edu/HousingandRacialJustice

This event will include a brief film screening about Engagement Féminin, a project based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso followed by Artist discussion.

hog ranch, hogwash, or putting lipstick on a pig, is an immersive dance experience devised and performed by Kayt MacMaster at Krannert Art Museum. Inspired by the lives and legends of cowgirls and showgirls on the American frontier, this work explores unbelievable exaggeration, solo travel, and self-legendizing as feminist acts of resistance.

FSHN 597 Graduate Seminar Series  Presenter:  Frantz-Lairy Obas PhD Candidate under the direction of Dr. Shelly Schmidt Title:  Impact of formulation and processing conditions on the material properties and sensory characteristics of confectionery products and model systems across the stages of sugar cooking

The first annual Molecule Maker Lab Institute Symposium brings together MMLI members, industry partners, and the broader research community for three days of sharing, discussing, and brainstorming cutting-edge research at the interface of chemistry and artificial intelligence.

Dr. Tutin Aryanti presents, "The Women's Mosques: On Segregation and Agency" On March 25th at 12pm CST. This event is a Hybrid event with in-person presentation by Dr. Tutin Aryanti in Room 325 Temple Buell Hall and also available to view through Zoom.  Zoom pre-registration required at https://illinois.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ekN-oGkXQheEtRAflwIjXQ