NCSA staff who would like to submit an item for the calendar can email newsdesk@ncsa.illinois.edu.
Travel to Silicon Valley and interact with corporate leaders, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurial alumni in various stages of a startup life cycle that share lessons learned about entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership
Join us for the annual Day of Gratitude on September 3!
Speaker: Alireza Seif, Quantum Staff Researcher, IBM
Join us for "Insider Tips from a Former Recruiter" with Bryan Goode on Tuesday, September 3 from 12 to 1 p.m.
Join TEC for Grainger Engineering Trivia Night and compete for prizes!
Speaker: Abdullah Irfan, Pfaff group
Join us for an unforgettable Welcome Back Grainger Engineers! event, packed with fun, food, and festivities to kick off the new academic year
Join us on Thursday, September 5 for the Research Park Block Party! Research Park is the premier technology hub on campus made up of 120+ companies ranging from startups to Fortune 500s. Take advantage of the resources and opportunities Research Park offers students this September 5 at our annual Block Party.
Startup companies and their employees who work within the EnterpriseWorks building are invited to join us for networking and breakfast from 9 to 10 AM on the first Friday of every month.
Speaker: Jennifer Choy, Dugald C. Jackson Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Speaker: Jacob Beckey, Leditzky Group
Research Park and the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation invite you to join us for AgTech Breakfast & MicroMGx Grand Opening from 8:00-10:15 a.m. on Thursday, September 12, 2024, at the EnterpriseWorks Atrium.
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.
The Research Park is hosting the Welcome Week Kick-Off Breakfast with the New American Welcome Center on Friday, September 13 from 8:30-9:30 a.m. on the EnterpriseWorks Patio.
Join us for training on the Report of Non-University Activities (RNUA) and the University's Policy on Conflicts of Commitment and Interest.
Join the Data + AI User Group on Friday, September 13 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
Academic staff members must annually complete a disclosure & request for approval of such activities. Throughout the year, additional disclosures & requests for prior approval are necessary whenever a change in such activities is proposed or when required by granting agencies. RNUA forms can be completed throughout the year for new hires or if an employee's status changes.
Speaker: Chen-Lung Hung, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University
Champaign County Bike to Work Day 2024 is happening on Wednesday, September 18th from 7-10 a.m. Registration is open!
Speaker: Nathan Arnold, Kwiat Group
Join us for the OVCRI Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Speaker Series. Topic: Human Subjects Research
Learn how to use parallel and distributed computing in MATLAB with a focus on speeding up application codes and offloading computers. By working through common scenarios and workflows using hands-on demos, you will gain a detailed understanding of the parallel constructs in MATLAB, their capabilities, and some of the common hurdles you'll encounter when using them.
We hope you will join us for an opening reception at Levis Faculty Center on the afternoon of September 18. Join us on the back patio to gather with the humanities community at Illinois. Rain location: Levis first floor atrium
Building upon their recent article, “What Is Information History?,” Bonnie Mak (Information Sciences) and Allen Renear (Information Sciences) introduce ways in which the humanities can engage in the critical examination of AI. Part of the “Think Again...” Event Series.
Join us for training on the Report of Non-University Activities (RNUA) and the University's Policy on Conflicts of Commitment and Interest
This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.
Join us on Friday, September 20 from 12 to 1 p.m. for "Recruiting with AI" with Sophie Roney.
Want to learn more about entrepreneurship opportunities throughout EnterpriseWorks? Starting promptly at 3 p.m., join us for tours through the EnterpriseWorks incubator to gain an understanding of the different resources EnterpriseWorks has to offer.
Join us to learn about "Opportunities in the Research Park for International Students" on Monday, September 23 from 4 to 5 p.m.
Speaker: Matthew Otten, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Speaker: Cheyenne Mitchell, Bucklund Group
Join us for the OVCRI Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Speaker Series. Topic: Privacy 101
Join Jesse McCarthy (English and African American Studies, Harvard University) and Christopher Freeburg (English) for a lunchtime book discussion. Professor McCarthy will briefly introduce his book "The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War" (2024), and then Professor Freeburg will moderate a discussion. Registration required!
Identity is at once the most central and the most unhappy word in contemporary discourse. Debates continue to rage within literary studies in the academy and in the public sphere at large about when, how, and to what extent, the discourse of identity, and sometimes its associated identity politics, should apply when we engage questions around...
Join us for our monthly “Fire At Five” Happy Hour to network with other interns and professionals who work in the Research Park on Thursday, September 26, 2024, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on the Atkins Patio.
SocialFuse: The event where you can pitch your startup idea, network, and find teammates. Or sit back and check things out!
Panel: Improvise & Intervene Reflections and Acknowledgements For this cohort of Interseminars fellows and conveners, circle-keeping and reflection have been a methodological commitment. In this talkback, we invite you to learn and hear about the joys, challenges, and lessons of forming an interdisciplinary collective. Refreshments will be served.
This is part of the culminating event series with Interseminars "Improvise & Intervene." Saturday's events include the Body Mapping Family Workshop, Performance & Panel: Culminating Reenactment I & II, a workshop with invited guest Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and more.
This is part of the culminating event series with Interseminars "Improvise & Intervene." Sunday's events include a tour, Closing Collage & Movement, and Community Dinner Reception.