Urbana Campus Research Calendar
Monday, October 14, 2019
Converging Paths: My Career as a Scientist and an Entrepreneur Monday, October 14th at 12:00pm in 612 IGB Dr. Penelope Shihab CEO and Founder, Monojo Biotech; Skinue.com; Applied Scientific Research Fund
This Distinguished Lecture is part of the Illinois Computer Science Speaker Series.
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
IHSI’s Community-Academic Scholars Initiative offers University of Illinois undergraduate students the opportunity to pursue community-based research projects in Urbana-Champaign over the summer. During the 10-week program, students will develop applied research skills for measuring and maximizing impact in their work. All applications must be submitted by Feb 1, 2020.
Fox Family Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lecture "Turning Science Into Social Impact: How We Built A Computational Genomics Operating System for Treating Cancer" Kevin White, PhD President of Tempus Labs Inc.; Professor, Department of Human Genetics and Medicine, University of Chicago
Your grant went through peer review, but didn’t get funded. Now what? This session will address how to respond to the reviewers’ comments, interpret critiques, and use feedback from reviewers or mentors to improve your grant proposal.
The last few years has seen rapid progress in the discovery of genes underlying risk for severe mental illness, Research in the Ament lab aims to trace mechanisms from genes to brain to mental illness through human genetics, stem cell models of brain development, and single-cell genomics.
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
IHSI’s Community-Academic Scholars Initiative offers University of Illinois undergraduate students the opportunity to pursue community-based research projects in Urbana-Champaign over the summer. During the 10-week program, students will develop applied research skills for measuring and maximizing impact in their work. All applications must be submitted by Feb 1, 2020.
Join a team of librarians for this series of five workshops, during which you will learn how to become a more successful researcher. Each section will be offered twice, once in the morning and once in the afternoon. Register for more information here: https://go.library.illinois.edu/research.
Do you have questions regarding your MA thesis? Come to the Thesis Office Hours. Get help from Emily Wuchner (Thesis Coordinator, Graduate College) and a small group of research specialists on the submission process, procedures and requirements, formatting texts, research queries, and working with data.
"The physiology, mapping, and prediction of stable carbon isotopes: a proxy trait for water-use efficiency in maize"
ATLAS.ti: Qualitative Data Analysis
This Colloquium Talk is part of the Illinois Computer Science Speaker Series.
R I: Getting Started with R workshop
Thursday, October 17, 2019
IHSI’s Community-Academic Scholars Initiative offers University of Illinois undergraduate students the opportunity to pursue community-based research projects in Urbana-Champaign over the summer. During the 10-week program, students will develop applied research skills for measuring and maximizing impact in their work. All applications must be submitted by Feb 1, 2020.
IHSI's Achieving Equity dialogue series seeks to enhance human wellbeing by illuminating topics of injustice and disparity in health. Each event will bring together critical parties—researchers, clinicians, community organizations, agencies, students, and engaged citizens—to move from awareness to action.
Friday, October 18, 2019
IHSI’s Community-Academic Scholars Initiative offers University of Illinois undergraduate students the opportunity to pursue community-based research projects in Urbana-Champaign over the summer. During the 10-week program, students will develop applied research skills for measuring and maximizing impact in their work. All applications must be submitted by Feb 1, 2020.
This Distinguished Lecture is part of the Illinois Computer Science Speaker Series.
John F. Allen Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment University College London "Why have chloroplasts and mitochondria retained genomes?"
Saturday, October 19, 2019
IHSI’s Community-Academic Scholars Initiative offers University of Illinois undergraduate students the opportunity to pursue community-based research projects in Urbana-Champaign over the summer. During the 10-week program, students will develop applied research skills for measuring and maximizing impact in their work. All applications must be submitted by Feb 1, 2020.