Advith's Calendar

Dragons across campus — learn, explore, and celebrate Throughout February, AACC dragons will pop up across campus for Lunar New Year. Visit each dragon to learn its significance and ways to celebrate. Take a dragon selfie, tag @aaccillinois, and enter a raffle for an AACC swag bag. Each tagged selfie counts as one entry—visit more locations for more chances!

This exhibition presents a selection of Chinese nianhua and related images exploring Lunar New Year themes and the horse, offering a glimpse into the hopes, stories, and celebrations they carry. May you enjoy an energetic and fruitful year ahead.

The Unfinished Revolutions: Living Stories of American Rights at the Spurlock Museum explores the ongoing struggle to define, expand, and protect liberty, equality, and justice in America. The exhibit invites you to share your perspective by creating a canvas page for a collaborative zine, adding your voice to this evolving story.

This 40-minute guided tour takes visitors on a ride through the ancient Greco-Roman world, highlighting the ways in which people viewed masculinity, femininity, sexuality, and erotica. From art to hygiene to sports to policy, we’ll be exploring how these topics were present in all parts of daily life.

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Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

MAXQDA is a robust software for analyzing qualitative data, including text, media, and survey data. The software is free for all University of Illinois users via a license provided by Illinois Computes. Learn how to use activation to view data for specific codes and documents, use reports, and more.

Speaker: Ethan Lake, Miller Fellow, University of California - Berkeley

Google Scholar is an incredibly popular and useful tool for research with several features that scholars may not be familiar with. This workshop will elaborate on the difference between searching in Google Scholar and academic databases, demonstrate how to use Google Scholar’s Advanced Search, explain how to get to connect your library access to Google Scholar, and more.

Shai Bel, PhD Azrieli Faculty of Medicine; Bar-Ilan University “Partners in Slime: Host-Microbiota Interactions in the Gut Mucus Layer”

These mentoring workshop series will prepare you with best practices for impactful guidance, effective communication and professional development.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a future feature of academic research; it is already embedded in the library databases that many researchers use daily. This workshop provides a practical and critical introduction to how AI operates within platforms such as ProQuest and JSTOR, including how it shapes search results, generates summaries, and suggests topics.

Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

Excited to share our Spring 2026 CAII seminar: GPU Programming with Triton! An 8‑week, hands‑on series moving from NumPy to high‑performance Triton kernels, including Flash Attention. Tuesdays 3–5 PM, Feb 17–Apr 7 at UIUC. Taught by Priyam Mazumdar. Hybrid format.

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

Are you struggling to keep track of all your sources? Looking for an easier way to cite as you write? Mendeley is a free citation manager that helps you organize your citations, store and annotate your files, and insert formatted citations into papers. You will leave this hands-on workshop with a Mendeley library set up and ready to use!

Speaker: Hannah Day, Pfaff Group

AI tools can write essays, summarize articles, and generate convincing images in seconds– but how can you tell when text (or images) were created by a machine rather than a human? In this interactive workshop, we’ll explore how generative AI works and why detecting AI-generated content is difficult to automate.

“Targeted drug delivery to tumor associated macrophages in glioblastoma mouse models" Urbi Saha, PhD Student Department of Neuroscience, University of Illinois

Prize-winning filmmaker Simon Bright will present on the challenges of preserving cinematic records of the liberation struggles of Southern Africa.

Wayne A. Wiegand, the F. William Summers Professor of Library and Information Studies Emeritus at Florida State University, will present "Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Missing Stories in American Library History. A reception will follow the lecture.

Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

Join us for the 24th annual Women's and Gender History Symposium. Featuring graduate research and keynote speakers Arunima Datta (Associate Professor of History, University of North Texas) and Eric McDuffie (Associate Professor of History, UIUC).

Joel Waldfogel will present "AI and the quantity and quality of creative products: have LLMs boosted creation of valuable books?" as part of the AImpact Speaker Series.

"Biocluster Overview" David Slater Associate Director of High Performance Computing