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Listen, play, and discover sound anew as you improvise with more than a dozen newly invented musical instruments in this interactive installation created by composer and instrument inventor Paul Dresher.

Throughout her process, Jen Everett remixes images of herself in conversation with the materials she collects to talk about Black life, kinship, and collective gathering. Could you dim the lights? is her first solo museum presentation.

Speaker: Alireza Seif, Quantum Staff Researcher, IBM

Alumni Lectures feature Chemistry at Illinois alumni who have, with the foundation of their chemistry studies at Illinois, made a meaningful impact in their chosen field. This Alumni Lecture tells the story of environmental law from its emergence in the United States to the present day.

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

Throughout her process, Jen Everett remixes images of herself in conversation with the materials she collects to talk about Black life, kinship, and collective gathering. Could you dim the lights? is her first solo museum presentation.

Are you interested in Global Security? We will host guests to discuss topics related to Arms Control & Domestic and International Security. Our first guest speaker is a former professor, Baladas Ghoshal. His career spans decades throughout the world; in policy, security, and more. Join us for his seminar "How does the world deal with a resurgent China?"

Throughout her process, Jen Everett remixes images of herself in conversation with the materials she collects to talk about Black life, kinship, and collective gathering. Could you dim the lights? is her first solo museum presentation.

Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Human-Centered Design is a creative problem solving approach that uses design thinking tools to identify the unmet needs of a population in order to collaboratively and iteratively develop relevant and innovative solutions. This seminar provides an introduction to the tools, spaces and processes that define this approach.

Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program Thursdsay, September 4, 4 pm - 5 pm YMCA Latzer Hall, 1001 S. Wright St, Champaign Remarks at 4:20 pm RSVP appreciated by Aug. 30

Samuel Rosner is a third year undergraduate studying physics.

Flatlands Dance Film Festival presents feature film, BAD LIKE BROOKLYN DANCEHALL. This documentary film features an entrancing cast of Jamaican and New York luminaries who share their community story of building a cultural bridge between Jamaica and New York through dancehall.

Throughout her process, Jen Everett remixes images of herself in conversation with the materials she collects to talk about Black life, kinship, and collective gathering. Could you dim the lights? is her first solo museum presentation.

FSHN Graduate Seminar Series Presenter | Andrew L. Waterhouse, PhD Professor of Viticulture and Enology Director, Robert Mondavi Institute of Wine and Food Science University of California- Davis Title | Three Ideas Room 180 Bevier Hall 11:00 AM Friday, September 6, 2024

QCB Director Zan Luthey-Schulten University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Introductory remarks by QCB grad student Andrew Maytin Title: Integration of experiments with theory & simulations

Throughout her process, Jen Everett remixes images of herself in conversation with the materials she collects to talk about Black life, kinship, and collective gathering. Could you dim the lights? is her first solo museum presentation.

Dr. Paul Bogdan, Duke University, will lecture on "Big and Small Stimulus Representations in the Ventral Stream."

Throughout her process, Jen Everett remixes images of herself in conversation with the materials she collects to talk about Black life, kinship, and collective gathering. Could you dim the lights? is her first solo museum presentation.

Speaker: Jennifer Choy, Dugald C. Jackson Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Speaker: Bruce Reznick (UIUC) Title:Equal sums of two cubes of quadratic forms

This hybrid workshop offers a beginner-friendly introduction to how tools like ChatGPT generate text. We'll explore best practices for using AI in your scholarship, creative practice, and work from a humanities perspective. There will be plenty of room for experimentation and questions!

Bo Wang, PhD Department of Bioengineering; Stanford University "Learning the super power of animal diversity one cell type at a time: regeneration, symbiosis, and evolution"

Dr. John Wong is a professor and director of medical physics in the Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences at Johns Hopkins University.

Fall 2024 iSEE Levenick Resident Scholar Tirthankar "TC" Chakraborty, scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Lab's Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, will give a public talk about the variability of environmental hazards and climate risks in cities and the problems that causes in urban modeling, as well as potential solutions.

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

Jordan Alexander Stein (English, Fordham University) will deliver a lecture titled "What Does the Present Feel Like?" as the first in this year's Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series, organized by the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.

Japan House will be featuring Japanese artist Seiran Chiba for a large-scale calligraphy execution of the character for peace. Following that is a live raking of the dry rock garden to showcase the character as a raked pattern. Afterward, there will be an origami crane foldraiser to support the Seattle Peace Garden. This free event will occur outside in the gardens.

Throughout her process, Jen Everett remixes images of herself in conversation with the materials she collects to talk about Black life, kinship, and collective gathering. Could you dim the lights? is her first solo museum presentation.

Rafael Jaime Gonzalez Ricon, Graduate Research Assistant - Animal Sciences

Join CSBS, the College of Education, and IHSI for the first event of the 2024-25 Community-Engaged Research Series. Connect with faculty and staff across campus involved in community-engaged research! Identify common goals and challenges in community-engaged research, learn from each other's experiences, find and share resources, and build your university and...

This talk evaluates the impact of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the Trump administration’s maximum pressure campaign, & the Biden administration’s appeasement of the Islamic Republic & propose a theoretical framework for how future US administrations can prevent nuclearization in Iran.

Samuel G. Freedman, Krouse Family Visiting Scholar in Judaism and Western Culture, will present "Fighting Hatred in the Heartland: Hubert Humphrey's Battles Against Extremism in Mid-Century America". Light refreshments will be served.

On Wednesday, September 11th, the Illinois Leadership Center & We CU will be holding our Entering Community Partnerships workshop. The workshop will guide humanities students on how to successfully collaborate in service partnerships with community organizations, and how to reflect both critically and personally on their service experience.

Throughout her process, Jen Everett remixes images of herself in conversation with the materials she collects to talk about Black life, kinship, and collective gathering. Could you dim the lights? is her first solo museum presentation.

How can you teach about, through, and with Human-Centered Design in higher education? This workshop introduces instructors to Human-Centered Design and its potential applications in teaching strategies and course materials.

Are you overwhelmed by organizing your sources? Zotero is a free, open-source citation manager that helps you store and organize your files and insert formatted citations into papers. You will leave this hands-on workshop with a Zotero library set up and ready to use!

This talk introduces the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). ARPA-H is a funding agency that supports high-impact research capable of driving biomedical and health breakthroughs that can deliver transformative, sustainable, and equitable health solutions for everyone.

This lecture provides a kind of bibliographic back story to Gerald Horne's latest book, "Armed Struggle? Panthers & Communists; Black Nationalists & Liberals in Southern California through the Sixties & Seventies." This lecture will draw upon decades of scholarship by Horne that led to the publication of his latest book

Speaker is Trung Vu

Speaker is Trung Vu

Jack is a senior majoring in physics with a minor in mathematics from Woodstock, IL. He is planning to pursue a career in computational plasma physics with a focus on magnetic fusion energy. Jack currently does research at the UIUC Center for Plasma Material Interactions and serves as President of the Illinois Alpha chapter of Tau Beta Pi Enginering Honor Society.

Throughout her process, Jen Everett remixes images of herself in conversation with the materials she collects to talk about Black life, kinship, and collective gathering. Could you dim the lights? is her first solo museum presentation.

Please join the University YMCA and Diversity & Social Justice Education for our Fall 2024 Friday Forum + Conversation Café series. Voting Rights and Democracy in 2024 by Sean Morales-Doyle, the Director of Voting Rights Program, Brennan Center for Justice. Free Lunch Provided

Don't miss out on our "Design Dialogues" speaker series, where we bring together leading voices in design for an engaging conversation. This inaugural session features Kevin Finke, a visionary human-centered designer and the Founder & Chief Experience Officer at Experience Willow

Renée R. Trilling, Angus Cameron Professor of Old English, Toronto: Early Medieval England boasts the earliest collection of vernacular medical texts north of the Alps. Many are translations of classical materials; others are native Old English “folk” medicine, charms, prognostics, and prayers. This lecture explores the hybrid medical discourse...

Early Medieval England boasts the earliest collection of vernacular medical texts north of the Alps. Many are translations of classical materials; others are native Old English “folk” medicine, charms, prognostics, and prayers. This lecture explores the hybrid medical discourse produced by the juxtaposition of Mediterranean and insular textual traditions.

Throughout her process, Jen Everett remixes images of herself in conversation with the materials she collects to talk about Black life, kinship, and collective gathering. Could you dim the lights? is her first solo museum presentation.

The Mortenson Center, in collaboration with the New American Welcome Center, The Urbana Free Library and Illinois International- Global Relations will have a Human Library Event as part of the events featured during 2024 National Welcoming week. The event will feature immigrants and international students living in Champaign-Urbana talking about their home countries.

Turn the pages of these human books and 'read' or hear about different countries represented in our community. Each station will feature a specific country where you can read or interact with the "book" (a person) and learn about different aspects of a country such as culture, language, or history.

Professor Emeritus Kimiko Gunji will be presenting her new cookbook, Wagashi: Season by Season. After an intro about wagashi, guests will be treated to three unique wagashi paired with three kinds of tea. These wagashi will be seasonal recipes from the book and each month of tasting events will highlight a different menu based on seasonal ingredients and occasions.

Dr. Hyejin Lee, UIUC, will lecture on "Precise Individual Measures of Inhibitory Control."

Judy Maltz is a senior correspondent for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. An award-winning journalist and filmmaker, Maltz was one of the founding editors of the Haaretz English edition. She will share some of her takeaways from an intensive year of writing about the repercussions of October 7 on Jewish Americans for one of Israel's leading newspapers...

Throughout her process, Jen Everett remixes images of herself in conversation with the materials she collects to talk about Black life, kinship, and collective gathering. Could you dim the lights? is her first solo museum presentation.

JSTOR is a digital library with access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines (primarily focused on humanities and social sciences). This workshop will focus on how to search text, images, and primary resources in JSTOR, and how to organize your research using the workspace feature.

Speaker: Chen-Lung Hung, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University

Noah Whiteman, PhD Departments of Integrative Biology and Molecular and Cell Biology; University of California, Berkeley "Acquisition of chemical defenses via horizontal gene transfer in insects"