General Events

The ancient poet Sappho coined "sweetbitter" in one of her most evocative verses, still striking us to the heart nearly three millennia later. As with so many ancient figures, the poet is more legend than person today, her story told and retold even as her poetry continues to enchant and move. This exhibit will be on display through mid-August 2026.

Dragons across campus — learn, explore, and celebrate Throughout February, AACC dragons will pop up across campus for Lunar New Year. Visit each dragon to learn its significance and ways to celebrate. Take a dragon selfie, tag @aaccillinois, and enter a raffle for an AACC swag bag. Each tagged selfie counts as one entry—visit more locations for more chances!

Are you working on innovative projects that address real-world challenges? TEC is accepting nominations for the $20,000 Illinois Innovation Award and the $10,000 Fiddler Innovation Fellowship. Ask a mentor, a faculty member or an academic advisor to nominate you.

Join the U. of I.'s largest venture creation program. Choose from specialized tracks, participate in customized workshops, receive expert mentorship and support tailored to your venture's development. Compete for over $550,000 in funding and prizes! Cozad New Venture Challenge is open to all majors.

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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.

Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

Make major moves on LinkedIn! Learn how to build a strong profile, find opportunities, and connect with professionals who can help shape your career

With over 100 prints on display—including works by Rembrandt, Goya, and Dürer—"Imagination, Faith, and Desire" is extraordinary for the significance of the works and the exceptionally high quality of the impressions, the excellence of which rivals the holdings at many major museums. On view September 25, 2025, through February 28, 2026.

Howard Gritton, PhD Department of Comparative Biosciences; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign “Cortical oscillations and neural timing: how attention enhances hearing in complex environments”

Join us on Tuesday, February 3rd from 1-2 p.m. for a workshop on Advertising with Google Ads at the Champaign Public Library with Scott Clanin of Clanin Creative.

Make a DIY fidget tool and learn about sensory resources at the library. Walk-ins welcome, but register in advance for a fidget take home kit. Pizza and materials will be provided while supplies last.

Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

Get up to speed quickly on the basics of making PDF documents accessible for all while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. For hands-on participation, you will need Adobe Acrobat Pro (not Acrobat Reader). U of I, UIS, and UIC faculty and staff can obtain Acrobat Pro free from the U of I Webstore: https://webstore.illinois.edu/shop/product.aspx?zpid=6065

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Film: Judas and the Black Messiah

Research Park and the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation invite you to join us for AgTech Breakfast from 8:00-9:30 AM on Wednesday, February 4 at the Illinois Conference Center.

Get up to speed on using the Pope Tech Canvas Accessibility Guide to make Canvas pages more accessible for everyone! In this hands-on workshop, we’ll start with an overview of the Pope Tech Canvas Accessibility Guide, how it functions, what the various errors, alerts, structural elements, and features mean, and how to fix these issues on a Canvas page.

"Confocal Imaging Simplified: Faster Acquisition, Easier Operation, More Results - an Introduction to Nikon Spinning Disk Confocal" Luke Summey Bioscience Sales Specialist - Nikon Instruments Inc.

Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

Join us for a hybrid event with Lauren Goodlad, the chair of Critical AI @ Rutgers and the editor of Critical AI, will be giving a lecture on February 4th at 4pm titled "THE LIFECYCLE OF WRITING SUBJECTS: On Generative AI and the Future of Writing."

This session will cover conceptual design, storytelling techniques, and scriptwriting. Our goal is to set a strong foundation to help researchers understand communication in this popular, innovative format. We will have four subsequent sessions that go into more depth, but this first workshop is paramount to getting started!

This session will cover conceptual design, storytelling techniques, and scriptwriting. We will have four subsequent sessions that go into more depth, but this first workshop is paramount to getting started!

Join us for an evening with Maksym Butkevych as he shares his experiences defending human rights on and off the battlefield, of captivity during the ongoing Russian war, and methods of building solidarity in Ukraine and beyond.

Join The New Word of Mouth: Community-Driven Marketing for Local Businesses with Ayden Owens, Founder of DapUp on Thursday, February 5 from 12 to 1 p.m.

Curious to explore the relationship between people, places, institutions and how they change over time? Join us for a gentle introduction to network analysis! By the end of this session, attendees will be able to identify when network analysis is an appropriate approach for their research and identify which tools best suit their needs. All are welcome!

This session covers how to develop the Specific Aims section of NIH proposals.

Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

Join us every Thursday for Snack & Study at AAS! From 1:00-4:00, the AAS building is open for student use. Pull up a seat in our cozy Reading Room and enjoy a quiet space where you can study, read, or just take a break from it all. Free hot drinks and snacks available while supplies last!

Best practices for sustaining a mentoring relationship

Students are invited to an online workshop to learn more about television newswriting with Jeff Butera, author of Write Like You Talk: A Guide to Broadcast Newswriting. Butera is a 12-time Emmy Award-winning journalist who has reported for stations across the country. He is currently a weekday news anchor at Spectrum Bay News 9 in Tampa Bay, Florida.

Illinois Soul is dedicated to spotlighting homegrown talent, and Erech Bruce embodies that mission perfectly. Hailing from Peoria, Erech delivers soulful, hard-hitting blues with powerful vocals and undeniable authenticity. Erech will kick off the Spring 2026 Uncorked series on Feb. 5, setting the tone with music rooted in lived expierience.

SPEAK stands for Song, Poetry, Art, and Knowledge. It is an open-mic public performance space at Krannert Art Museum curated by local artist, Shaya Robinson, featuring guest performers and welcoming all to the mic.

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. A few of our startup companies will be practicing their pitches to the audience and would appreciate your feedback.

Learn from the author of Thriving as an International Scientist

Dr. D. Fairchild Ruggles, Professor and Debra L. Mitchell Chair in Landscape Architecture, will present her lecture "Muslim Woman and Architectural Patronage" February 6|12pm till 1pm (CST) | Coble Hall 306 or Zoom

Women have been important patrons of major works of architecture in the Islamic world historically, a phenomenon that reveals their social agency and can illuminate their lives even when they are barely mentioned in historical texts.

Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

Please join us for an event in the Timbuktu Talks series with Ismael M. Montana (Northern Illinois University) titled "Ahmad b. al-Qāḍī al-Timbuktāwī: Pilgrimage, Intellectual Exchange, and Condemnation of the Enslaved Religion of the Blacks of Tunis."

Join us for Crafternoons every month on the first Friday at the WRC. This month, we will be making snow globes! All materials are provided. This event is free and open to everyone.

Winter Artist Showcase Opening Reception In Between — Soyoung Jung In Between features painting and collage works from early to recent years, exploring the idea of “journey.” Jung reflects on movement between home and elsewhere, drawing on the Korean concept of 공간 (gong-gan), where space is shaped by relationships, emotion, and lived experience.

101.1 FM Illinois Soul celebrates two years amplifying Black voices and culture here in East-Central Illinois! What better way to throw an anniversary party than with food, friends, and great music provided by smooth jazz sensation MAYSA!

Explore your innovation from a business perspective, develop best practices for conducting customer discovery and prepare to apply for grants with Illinois I-Corps Workshop Series in spring. The skills learned can be applied to any career path. The spring 2026 cohort will be held online. Application is due on Feb. 9, 2026.

LAS International Programs and the European Union Center are hosting a panel of former study abroad students in Europe and an LAS International staff member. Students interested in studying abroad in Europe are encouraged to attend!

Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.