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RBML’s new exhibit celebrates the 75th anniversary of Gwendolyn Brooks’s 'Annie Allen' – the poetry collection that won the first Pulitzer Prize by a Black author – and explores the rich history of Black literature’s emergence into the mainstream. On display through May 2025.

All campus libraries will be closed on Tuesday, Jan. 7, from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. for an all-employee event. Library digital resources will remain available during this closure and may be accessed through the Library Gateway (click the link above). Please arrange your study or research schedule accordingly.

Are you hosting a Black History Month event? Whether it’s a discussion, performance, or community activity, we want to feature it! We are gathering Black History Month events into one central calendar, so submit your program to https://go.illinois.edu/BHMC2025 by January 8, 2025! Allow us to highlight all the amazing work happening on campus and in the local community!!

Department of Cell Biology

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

Access to college not only enhances the eventual earning prospects of incarcerated individuals. At their best, higher education in prison programs create loving, supportive, brave spaces within these violent environments. This talk explores the potential for creating education-based beloved communities within prisons.

Join us for the 2025 MLK Lecture. Rebecca Ginsburg associate professor and director of the Education Justice Project was chosen as the distinguished faculty member to speak on the ideals and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 

The MLK Champions recognition program will celebrate the MLK legacy by recognizing the power of community action to honor local partners, students, faculty, and staff who have dedicated their talents to enhancing the movement of justice, equity, and dignity. Keynote: Ashley Etienne, senior advisor to Presidents Obama and Biden, Vice President Harris and Speaker Pelosi.

Instructor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Adult Neurology

Join us for our Dish It Up/Lunch on Us Series at the Women's Resources Center every 2nd & 4th Monday at noon (12 p.m. CST), while listening to speakers, lecturers, and panelists explore a variety of topics at the intersection of gender and other social identities.

The Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve (CMER): a pocket of hope in facing increasing threats in the Brazilian Amazon by Dr. Sabina Cerruto Ribeiro January 27, 2025 | 3 pm CTS | 306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St

Music culled from testimonies will be accompanied by stellar musicians for a unique experience in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Songs from Testimonies brings to life through music how people managed to survive one of the worst experiences in human history.

Speaker: Hadiseh Alaeian, Assistant Professor, Purdue University

Speakers: Alexandru Zaharescu and Amy Woodall (UIUC) Title: Arithmetic polygons and fractional parts of polynomials

LaKisha David, PhD Department of Anthropology; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Reconstructing Extended Genetic Genealogies: Applications of the Bonsai Tree Algorithm in Genomic Data Analysis"

Speaker: Zhao Yang (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Title: "Small-amplitude finite-depth Stokes waves are transversally unstable."

Aditya Gopalan (UIUC) talks about "Operating and Design Principles for Blockchains."

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 for Family STEM Nights, hosted by the Illinois Science Explorers, a science outreach initiative from the University of Illinois. Bring the whole family for an evening packed with free pizza, hands-on science fun, and interactive experiments!

Please join the campus community for a discussion titled, “Rectifying "et al." History: The Women of Brown Project,” where Donna will discuss Oliver Brown, et al. vs. Board of Education of Topeka and the twelve female plaintiffs in the 1954 Supreme Court case. These twelve women played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement.

Please join the campus community for a discussion titled, “Rectifying "et al." History: The Women of Brown Project,” where Donna will discuss Oliver Brown, et al. vs. Board of Education of Topeka and the twelve female plaintiffs in the 1954 Supreme Court case.

Book discussion lunch with Gilberto Rosas, Anthropology and Latina/Latino Studies.

Back by popular demand, join us at our upcoming welcome/resource fair which will feature units such: The Career Center Chez Veteran Center Counseling Center Office of Financial Aid Grainger Library IDEA Lab Off-Campus Community Living New Student & Family Experiences Office of Undergraduate Research Writers Workshop Speakers Workshop MHC- Health Education

The AIFARMS Institute invites you to join us in person or via Zoom on January 30, 2025, for an exciting seminar titled "Seeing the Unseen: Modular Open-Source Ecosystem for GeoAI" featuring Dr. Jinha Jung from Purdue University. Free to attend; registration required.

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.

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.

RBML welcomes Jason Dean from the Linda Hall Library to discuss events leading up to the 1712 incident in which John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal, burned copies of his own astronomical work, Historia Coelestis. Please sign up to receive the Zoom link at go.illinois.edu/JasonDean

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.

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.