Listening opportunites on campus

Monday, April 21, 2025

- 10:00 - 10:30 am
- Beckman Institute Center Atrium
Gather in the Garden

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!
- Social/Informal Event
- 2:30 - 3:30 pm
- Innovation Studio, 172 Armory
Stress Less Tuesday's
- Health/Fitness

- 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
- International and Area Studies Library, 3rd Floor, 321 Main Library
Atrocities in the Levant through the Jesuit Archives: The Great Famine in Lebanon 1915–1918
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
- 3057 Lincoln Hall; 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL
Sociology Colloquia: Benjamin Shestakofsky, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
- Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower
Yoga at Beckman

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!
- Health/Fitness
- 1:30 - 3:00 pm
- SDRP Main Lobby
Wellness Wednesday: Self Acceptance
- Health/Fitness
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online
Distinguished Lecture: Jason Cong, "Efficient LLMs: From Model Innovation to Customized Acceleration"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory
Playing the Changes: Jazz and Education in South Africa

Darius and Catherine Brubeck discuss their pioneering jazz curriculum and performance program developed in apartheid-era South Africa that brought black and white musicians together to create a soundtrack to the freedom struggle and its aftermath. South African jazz scholar and performer Colin Miller joins this conversation.
- Lecture

- 6:00 - 7:30 pm
- Grainger Library, 4th floor
Bring a Healthy U & I
- Health/Fitness

- 9:00 am
- Third-floor tower room, 3269
Mission-Critical Work Discussion

Join Beckman's leadership team to ask questions about its financial plans during challenging times.
- Informational
- 2:00 pm
- Beckman Institute Room 3269 (3rd floor tower room)
STC for Quantitative Cell Biology Seminar: Yingjie Zhang

The STC for Quantitative Cell Biology Seminar Series continues with Yingjie Zhang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and QCB Faculty, will lecture on "Mid-Infrared Spectromicroscopy of Living Cells"
- Lecture
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- YMCA Latzer Hall, 1001 S. Wright Street, Champaign
CSGGE Spring Reception

CSGGE Spring Reception. Please join us as we honor or GRID Graduates and CSGGE Award Recipients. Friday, April 25 | 4:00-5:00 pm | YMCA Latzer Hall. 1001 S. Wright Street, Champaign. Remarks at 4:20pm.
- Ceremony/Service
- 4:00 pm
- RAL 116
Professor Anna Wuttig, University of Chicago, "Electrocatalytic Synthesis with Interfacial Control"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 6:00 - 8:30 pm
- Siebel Center for Design
Celebrating Africa!
- Religious/Cultural