Urbana Campus Research Calendar (OVCRI)

RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.

The Beckman Institute Open House will be held in person on Friday, March 31 and Saturday, April 1. Visitors of all ages can do hands-on demos and activities, solve a science scavenger hunt, and meet the people behind world-changing scientific discoveries.

Join KAM’s Educators and librarians from the Champaign Public Library for an interactive story time for children and their families and caregivers. All ages welcome!

Shana Kelley, PhD Inaugural President, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago "Deploying Bioanalytical Platforms to Probe Inflammation and Immunity"

Speaker: Brian Smith, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Oregon

Courtney will use her experience of teaching Middle Eastern and North African Studies at Wofford College along with her expertise on self-care pedagogy to show how scholars and students can address the hard questions from an interdisciplinary angle while also doing so in a way that is generative and sustainable.

Selim Unlu, PhD Distinguished Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University "Interferometric Reflection Imaging Sensor from Multiplexed Molecular Affinity Measurements to Counting Single Analytes"

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

Macarena Gómez-Barris is a writer and scholar with a focus on the decolonial environmental humanities, authoritarianism and extractivism, queer Latine epistemes, media environments, cultural theory and artistic practice.

​Entanglement, the correlations displayed between sub-systems of a multipartite quantum system, is one of the most distinctive properties of quantum physics and a significant resource for quantum information science and technology. Entanglement swapping is a protocol that enables the entanglement of quantum systems that have never interacted.

"Crafting the Art of Science: a Sneak Peek Behind the Scenes" Julia Pollack, Creative Program Manager, IGB Topic: Art of Science Lunch will be provided

Speaker: Mengdi Zhao, Fang Group, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC

4/5/2023: Weights & Biases workshop: POSTPONED to April 19, 2023 Training Overview: Andrea will take you through a W&B introduction and product walkthrough, including Experiment tracking, W&B Tables, Sweeps, Artifacts, Dashboards/Reports, and Integrations! Followed by a Colab classification competition in Kaggle with swag for top submissions.

Access Illinois is a hybrid event celebrating accessibility and inclusion at the University of Illinois. An optional lunch will be provided to in-person attendees.

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

Undergrad students in the arts and humanities: join HRI at Levis Faculty Center for an hour of coffee, cookies and discussion with HRI Campus Graduate Student Fellow Kadin Henningsen! Kadin will talk about how his background as an artist and printer and how it connects to his research. His mobile printing press will be on site for students to print a souvenir bookmark.

Join us for the Spring 2023 University of Illinois Press Publishing Symposium. Panels will cover transforming your dissertation into a book and everything you ever wanted to know about book series. Learn more and register for the individual panels here:https://www.press.uillinois.edu/symposium/spring23symposium.html

Join us for a School of Art & Design Visitors Series talk by artist Ann Johnson. Reflecting on her 2022 Lawndale Contemporary Art Center installation See Me, Ann “Sole Sister” Johnson is matter-a-fact about the intent: “This is about being seen. Seeing the women in the shadows.”

All undergraduate students are invited to submit entries consisting of an image and brief text that articulates how the image relates to the research.

The Inclusive Lab Leaders is a program to help those in STEM and beyond develop the skills and strategies to effectively communicate with mentors, students, and peers.

Please join us on April 7 at 11:00 am in the Beckman Auditorium for some exciting research presentations. Followed by a poster session in the Atrium.

FSHN 597 Graduate Seminar Series Presenter | Bettina Mittendorfer, PhD Professor of Medicine ​Division of Geriatrics & Nutritional Sciences ​Washington University in St. Louis Title | TBA

Dr. Huang will discuss some of his team’s most recent projects which explore newly available sensors/devices such as high-speed sensors and deformable mirrors, analytical methods such as deep learning, and novel optical instrumentation to allow SMLM imaging in live cells and tissue specimens.

Dr. Adam Zwickle (Michigan State University) is this week's guest and will be speaking on "Sustainable water governance: Evaluating policy approaches to water use."

Celebrate as we open the 2023 Master of Fine Arts Exhibition.

Join Beckman Director Nadya Mason in the Beckman center atrium for the annual presentation of the Vision and Spirit Award, which recognizes a researcher at the institute who has fostered collaboration in their research and exemplifies founder Arnold Beckman's vision.

The Spatial Omics Initiative monthly working group brings together researchers from different disciplines to enable breakthroughs in genomic biology by developing new ways to embed omics data in space, jointly with CAIM. 

Speaker: Roni Harnik, Senior Scientist, Quantum Theory Department Head, Fermilab; Science Thrust Leader, Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center (SQMS)

Liewei Wang, PhD Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics; Mayo Clinic Rochester "Individualized therapy: Discovery and Translation"

Join us for film screening of Raspando coco (31 mins.) followed by discussion with filmmaker and Illinois Alumna Dr. Pilar Egüez Guevara on April 11, 2023.

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

Log in to learn about a group of women book collectors who met from 1944-2004, providing a space for legitimacy, fellowship, and education in a period where women’s access to formal education and academic institutions was limited.

Lunch with the Core "Mechanics to microstructure: Image-based modeling of the extracellular matrix" Callan Luetkemeyer, Adjunct Assistant Professor, The Grainger College of Engineering, MechSE Lunch will be provided

Speaker: Vijaya Begum-Hudde, Schleife Group, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC