Seminars of Interest

All are welcome to join our weekly 10-10:30 a.m. Tuesday gather in the atrium sessions. Please feel free to bring your own favorite beverage and enjoy the company!

Looking to enhance your online course design? Join us for an engaging session where you'll discover how the Quality Matters (QM) rubric and resources can help you transform your online and hybrid courses. QM provides a rich set of tools and resources to guide you through improving online course quality and optimizing students' learning experiences.

"The Magic of RNA: New Medicines, Immortality, and the Power to Control Evolution" Thomas R. Cech, PhD Nobel Laureate Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute BioFrontiers Institute University of Colorado Boulder I-Hotel and Conference Center Reception and book signing to follow.

Join us from 10:30-11 a.m. Thursday, April 2 in the Beckman Atrium to unwind with a visiting therapy dog! All are welcome to take a moment to destress, relax and recharge with the calming presence of a canine friend!

Learn to evaluate innovative approaches to increasing diverse participation in cancer clinical trials through community engagement, analyzing implementation strategies that effectively bridge academic research and community participation, and demonstrating the measurable impact of community-engaged trials on reducing cancer care disparities.

In an increasingly tense political landscape, book bans have become a topic of conversation nationwide. This talk discusses the history of book bans, why they happen, and what people can do to prevent them.

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this spring for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!

Get help with data visualization at the Vis Lab's office hours from 1-3 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays in 2203 Beckman Institute.

Learn to craft a compelling fellowship proposal.

Come find out more about the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology! Learn about the barrier-busting interdisciplinary research facility and community of innovation. First Thursday of the month from 10-10:30 a.m.

"Reflect on what you're learning" is a hopeful but difficult prompt for students and instructors. In this workshop, two scholars and instructors from the clinical-community psychology department will introduce a simple framework for engaging in reflection assignments and broader reflexive practice, playfully called “SpORE" (Specific Observation, Reaction, Expansion).

An overview of the industry/nonprofit job search

"Biocluster" Dan Davidson, CNRG Director of CNRG and Research Computing

Get help with data visualization at the Vis Lab's office hours from 1-3 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays in 2203 Beckman Institute.

Calvin Mackie, founder of STEM NOLA, will give a lecture titled, "Hope in the 21st Century." A kid-friendly reception will follow, as will a preview of the Beckman Institute Open House from 4-6 p.m

The Beckman Institute Open House is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, April 4, and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 5, 2025. It offers a fun, interactive look at the interdisciplinary research happening at the Beckman Institute. It happens at the same time as Engineering Open House each year.

Hear “Questions Led the Way,” a new storybook about the Beckman Institute. Listeners will receive a free science notebook!

Learn about the Fulbright U.S. Student Grant Program.

Hear “Questions Led the Way,” a new storybook about the Beckman Institute. Listeners will receive a free science notebook!

The STC for Quantitative Cell Biology Seminar Series continues with Carolyn Larabell, University of California San Francisco and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, will lecture on "Quantitative 3D Imaging of Whole Cells Using Soft X-ray Tomography"

Train your own LLM and deploy it as a Teaching Assistant and link it with Canvas.  Set it up as a trustworthy tutor that provides instruction, yet does not give away answers to homework problems.  Have it assist you with literature review. This workshop will showcase the creation process of a custom LLM for classroom purposes with Illinois.chat.

The Beckman Institute Open House is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, April 4, and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 5, 2025. It offers a fun, interactive look at the interdisciplinary research happening at the Beckman Institute. It happens at the same time as Engineering Open House each year.

Hear “Questions Led the Way,” a new storybook about the Beckman Institute. Listeners will receive a free science notebook!

Hear “Questions Led the Way,” a new storybook about the Beckman Institute. Listeners will receive a free science notebook!

All are welcome to join our weekly 10-10:30 a.m. Tuesday gather in the atrium sessions. Please feel free to bring your own favorite beverage and enjoy the company!

Learn the accessibility requirements for making your Canvas courses accessible. This hands-on workshop will cover using the Canvas editor to create navigable pages, writing effective alt text description for images, charts, and graphs, ensuring readable color contrast, creating accessible tables and links, and using Canvas accessibility tools to fix common issues.

Owen Ryan, PhD Director of Cell Engineering Research at ADM "An adventure in yeast synthetic biology and industrial biotechnology"

Visual Feast: How the Sausage Gets Made with Jay Cournoyer.

This workshop will provide the opportunity to learn about the use of EVs as markers of disease progression from Mayo Clinic faculty, as well as become acquainted with newly emerging technologies to capture and detect EVs by faculty at Illinois. The poster session will provide an informal venue for exploring new collaborations. Register by April 9.

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this spring for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!

The annual symposium of the Center for Label-free Imaging and Multiscale Biophotonics is open for all interested in the field of label-free biophotonics, with translational applications to clinical medicine and fundamental biology

Join Beckman Director Steve Maren in the Beckman center atrium for the annual presentation of two Beckman awards: the Vision and Spirit Award, and the Staff Spirit and Dedication Award. Cupcakes will follow in celebration of the anniversary of Arnold Beckman's birth, April 10.

This lecture series highlights the important innovations and contributions of women in sciences here at the University of Illinois, and centers the importance of documenting women scientists and engineers to create a diverse and inclusive archival record.

Learn about the Fulbright U.S. Student Grant Program.

The STC for Quantitative Cell Biology Seminar Series continues with Bernhard Palsson, University of California, San Diego, will lecture on "What are iModulons?"