OVCR Working Groups Calendar
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12:00 pm 12/31/2025Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor TowerJoin 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!
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12:00 pm 1/7/2026Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor TowerJoin 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!
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12:00 pm 1/14/2026Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor TowerJoin 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!
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8:30 am 1/15/2026via email -
3:00 pm 1/15/2026AtriumJoin other members of the Beckman community for coffee and cookies in the Beckman Atrium. The Cookie Collab is scheduled for 3 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month.
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12:00 pm 1/21/2026Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor TowerJoin 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!
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12:00 pm 1/28/2026Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor TowerJoin 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!
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12:00 - 12:50 pm 1/28/2026Everitt 2310 -
12:00 - 1:30 pm 1/28/2026The 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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7:00 pm 1/28/2026Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana -
12:30 - 2:00 pm 1/29/2026Levis Faculty Center, Room 424This informal group aims to bring together graduate students from across campus to share their enthusiasm for the thought-provoking scholarship that animates them as people. Stop by to listen, chat, and share lunch!
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5:00 - 7:00 pm 1/29/2026Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., ChampaignEleven faculty members from the U of I School of Art & Design will be featured in this upcoming exhibition: Ryan Griffis, Emmy Lingscheit, Melissa Pokorny, Sharath Ramakrishnan, Stacey Robinson, Joel Ross, Stephen Signa-Avilés, Blair Ebony Smith, Nekita Thomas, Deke Weaver, and Brooke C. White.
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9:30 am 2/3/2026MRI ExhibitCome find out more about the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology! Learn about the barrier-busting interdisciplinary research facility and community of innovation. First Tuesday of the month from 9:30-10 a.m.
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12:00 pm 2/4/2026Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor TowerJoin 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!
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12:00 pm 2/11/2026Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor TowerJoin 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!
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1:00 - 5:00 pm 2/13/2026Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W. Illinois St -
12:00 pm 2/18/2026Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor TowerJoin 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!
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12:00 - 12:50 pm 2/18/2026Everitt 2310 -
3:00 pm 2/19/2026AtriumJoin other members of the Beckman community for coffee and cookies in the Beckman Atrium. The Cookie Collab is scheduled for 3 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month.
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12:00 pm 2/25/2026Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor TowerJoin 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!
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4:00 pm 2/26/2026Levis Faculty Center, Room 422Erin Brock Carlson’s research centers the relationships between place, technology, and power, focusing on how communities work together to address complex public problems through communication and community organizing. She uses community-based and participatory approaches in her research.
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5:30 pm 2/26/2026Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana -
11:55 pm 2/27/2026PhD students in the humanities at Illinois: make an impact using your humanities training this summer through the Summer Bridge Program! Support a community organization in Champaign-Urbana while learning new skills and exploring new career paths.
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11:00 am - 1:00 pm 3/2/2026Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W. Illinois St -
9:30 am 3/3/2026MRI ExhibitCome find out more about the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology! Learn about the barrier-busting interdisciplinary research facility and community of innovation. First Tuesday of the month from 9:30-10 a.m.
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7:30 pm 3/3/2026Levis Faculty Center, Room 422Dr. Justin R. Garcia is an evolutionary biologist and sex researcher. He is executive director and senior scientist at the Kinsey Institute, Ruth N. Halls Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, and adjunct professor of medicine at Indiana University, Bloomington.
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12:00 pm 3/4/2026Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor TowerJoin 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!
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3:30 - 5:00 pm 3/4/2026Levis Faculty Center 300The Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity and the Humanities Research Institute host the annual campus celebration of International Women's Day with “12 Women Who Changed the World: Untold Stories.”
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8:30 am 3/7/2026Levis Faculty Center, Room 210This informal group aims to bring together graduate students from across campus to share their enthusiasm for the thought-provoking scholarship that animates them as people. Light refreshments will be provided. This edition of Scholarship Out Loud will be part of the 2026 Women’s and Gender History Symposium.
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12:00 pm 3/11/2026Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor TowerJoin 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!
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11:00 am - 1:00 pm 3/12/2026Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W. Illinois St -
3:00 pm 3/12/2026AtriumJoin other members of the Beckman community for coffee and cookies in the Beckman Atrium. The Cookie Collab is scheduled for 3 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month.
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12:00 pm 3/18/2026Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor TowerJoin 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!
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12:00 pm 3/25/2026Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor TowerJoin 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!
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12:00 - 12:50 pm 3/25/2026Everitt 2310 -
12:00 - 1:30 pm 3/25/2026Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W. Illinois St -
12:00 - 1:30 pm 3/30/2026Levis Faculty Center, Room 424This informal group aims to bring together graduate students from across campus to share their enthusiasm for the thought-provoking scholarship that animates them as people. Stop by to listen, chat, and share lunch!
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4:00 pm 3/30/2026Levis Faculty Center, Room 210Story & Place event series: Anke Pinkert Book Talk
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8:30 am 4/1/2026via email -
12:00 pm 4/1/2026Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor TowerJoin 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!
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4:00 - 6:00 pm 4/1/2026Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St -
9:00 am - 5:00 pm 4/3/2026Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St -
9:30 am 4/7/2026MRI ExhibitCome find out more about the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology! Learn about the barrier-busting interdisciplinary research facility and community of innovation. First Tuesday of the month from 9:30-10 a.m.
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7:00 pm 4/7/2026Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana -
12:00 - 12:50 pm 4/8/2026Everitt 2310 -
12:00 pm 4/15/2026Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center (1212 W Nevada St., Urbana)Undergraduates of any major are invited to this informal lunch talk with Rita Dove. Dove served as US Poet Laureate from 1993–1995. She was a winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the 2023 honorary National Book Award.
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12:00 pm 4/15/2026Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor TowerJoin 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!
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12:00 - 12:50 pm 4/15/2026Everitt 2310 -
7:30 pm 4/15/2026Alice Campbell Alumni CenterJoin us for a free public reading by award-winning poet Rita Dove. Dove served as US Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995, and was a winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the 2023 honorary National Book Award.
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11:00 am - 1:00 pm 4/16/2026Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St


