Speaker: Nicholas Earl, 2023 - 2024 Graduate Student Fellow

Speaker: Bhaskar Mondal, 2023 - 2024 Graduate Student Fellow

The Center for Digital Agriculture is hosting our annual conference on March 6, 2024, at the hotel and Illinois Conference Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Join us to celebrate the Center’s 5-year anniversary and to explore topics centered around the theme: Future of Digital Agriculture.

Speaker: Carlos Palazuelos, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Analysis and Applied Mathematics, Universidad Complutense Madrid

We invite you to join us for our hybrid spring seminar on Tuesday, March 19, at 1 p.m. CST, featuring Dr. Christopher Stewart from The Ohio State University. He will present his work with the NSF-funded National AI Institute – ICICLE: Intelligent CI with Computational Learning in the Environment.

Speaker: Sam Cross, Pfaff Group

Swami Tyagananda will be presenting a public lecture at Spurlock, “Learning from Rāmāyana.”

Speaker: "Force-multiplying quantum hardware with software," Pranav Gokhale, VP of Quantum Software, Infleqtion

Speaker: James Allen, Clark Group

Undergraduates of any major are invited to this informal lunch talk with Pulitzer Prize-winner David Maraniss (New York Times bestselling author and associate editor at The Washington Post). Lunch provided!

Was your recent proposal not selected for funding, but you aren’t ready to give up on it yet? Join the PDO to get insights into next steps for unawarded proposals.

Join the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Women in Aerospace for a viewing of Fly Girls which tells the largely unknown story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), featuring a remarkable group of former WASPs who recall the planes they flew, the challenges they met, and the pride they felt in playing a role in the American war effort.

Join us for an evening with Pulitzer Prize-winner David Maraniss as he delivers his keynote talk, “Lombardi, Clemente, and Thorpe: Illuminating American History Through Sports.” A book signing will follow. This talk is part of the symposium Sporting Publics: History, Sports, and American Culture, which is taking place March 28–29, 2024.

Runstedtler’s presentation draws on her 2023 book Black Ball, exploring how African American basketball players challenged the status quo on the court and in US society. Part of the symposium Sporting Publics: History, Sports, and American Culture, which is taking place March 28–29, 2024.

Professor Louis Moore will present on his book I Fight for a Living: Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood, 1880-1915 and Daniel Nasset (Editor-in-Chief, University of Illinois Press) will share the editor’s perspective on working with Moore to turn his idea into a book that speaks to sporting publics.

Frank Guridy (History, Columbia University) will be presenting, with Augustus Wood (Labor and Employment Relations) commenting. Guridy will preview part of his forthcoming book The Stadium, which examines the intersections of activism, sport stadiums, and political change. Part of the symposium Sporting Publics: History, Sports, and American Culture...

Shakeia Taylor is a Chicago-based award-winning writer and storyteller, whose work focuses on the intersection of sports, history, and culture.