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Announcements for the week of April 20, 2025
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Neuroscience Program Events
Since its inception over 30 years ago, fMRI brain imaging has had remarkable influence on research and society. However, since fMRI images require complex statistical analyses, interpretational and statistical errors are common, leading to stagnation and consternation into the field. In this seminar it is demonstrated how dropping common assumptions can allow task-based fMRI to provide extremely reliable temporal and spatial information that can lead to detailed cognitive theories and generation of hypotheses for future studies, with strong potential for clinical applications.
April 22, 2025 4 p.m. • **Beckman Institute 5602**
Sepideh Sadaghiani • Neuroscience Program
Celebrate and recognize faculty and student achievement in the 2024-2025 school year.
Food and drinks will be provided.
April 29, 2025 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. • Beckman Institute 1005
Professional Development
An effective interview should demonstrate why you're a good fit for a role and leave the interviewers excited about the prospect of working with you. But actually achieving this goal can be a challenge. In this workshop, we'll discuss strategies for preparing yourself for job interviews, and techniques for answering different types of questions by telling your professional story in compelling ways. No registration required. This session is available online at https://go.grad.illinois.edu/eventspace
See the full listing of Graduate College workshops at https://go.grad.illinois.edu/workshops
*If you require any disability-related accommodations to participate in this workshop more fully, please email gradsuccess@illinois.edu
April 22, 2025 12 p.m. - 1 p.m.
gradsuccess@illinois.edu • Graduate College Career Development
If you're graduating in the coming year and want a faculty job, you need to start preparing now. This summer is a crucial time to get organized and prepare application materials. Join us for this workshop to get tips on how to get ready for a faculty job search this fall. The workshop will address how the faculty job search process works, all of the application documents you will need to prepare, how to stay organized during the search, and more. We will also address how changing policy and economic landscapes might affect the 2025 academic job search. No registration required. This workshop will take place in person at the Graduate College (507 E. Green St., Champaign) and on Zoom at https://go.grad.illinois.edu/eventspace See the full listing of Graduate College workshops at go.grad.illinois.edu/workshops *If you require any disability related accommodations to participate in this workshop more fully, please email gradsuccess@illinois.edu
April 23, 2025 4 p.m. • Graduate College 202 (507 E. Green St., Champaign)
gradsuccess@illinois.edu • Graduate College Career Development
The ability to craft an effective funding proposal is a skill that can reap a lifetime of rewards. As a graduate student, now is the time to hone your grantwriting proficiency. In this workshop, designed for students in STEM fields, you will learn how to identify funding opportunities, strategize the components of an effective proposal, and think like a grantwriter. Come with questions about this mysterious genre, leave with a template that you can adapt to become a competitive applicant for prestigious university, national, and international funding competitions. Register in advance for the link to this online workshop. See more Graduate College Workshops.
May 1, 2025 10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Ken Vickery • Graduate College Office of External Fellowships
Dates and Deadlines
DEI Events
Workshop is open to faculty, staff, postdocs, and graduate students! Abstract
This workshop aims to equip educators with the knowledge and tools to integrate ChatGPT effectively into STEAMM education, fostering critical thinking skills, global perspectives, and social responsibility among students. Topics addressed in this workshop include: - Recognizing the significance of incorporating social responsibility and global perspectives into STEAMM courses.
- Balancing technical content with societal issues for a well-rounded educational approach
- Understanding how ChatGPT can expedite the creation of content and assignments.
- Exploring the principles behind using ChatGPT effectively in education.
Speaker
- Dr. Sindia M. Rivera-Jiménez and Dr. Ana María Porras, University of Florida
April 23, 2025 12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
NSF DEEP Center • Grainger Engineering Developing Equity-Minded Engineering Practioners (DEEP) Center
Wellness
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!
April 23, 2025 12 p.m. • Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower
Elena Romanova • Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Seminars of Interest
April 24, 2025 11 a.m. • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Panel, 12:00-1:00pm180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave
"The Science and Practice of Team Science"
Stephen Fiore, PhD
Director, Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, University of Central Florida
Melanie Bauer
Grant Writing Manager, Nova Southeastern University Reception, 1:00-2:00pm
Gatehouse Lobby, IGB Administration Building, 1206 West Gregory Drive The Science and Practice of Team Science panel will provide complementary perspectives on the Science of Team Science (SciTS), an emerging area of scholarship developed to understand and improve teamwork in science. As an interdisciplinary field, SciTS adapts concepts and methods from various areas to study issues ranging from team formation and team composition and how these relate to group dynamics in science teams, to organizational challenges around collaboration in science, and how these relate to professional development (e.g., choices researchers make) and advancement in academia (e.g., tenure and promotion). Drawing on their experience from a multi-year project using a coaching intervention to develop teams for transdisciplinary science, our panelists will provide insights as scientists and practitioners and discuss their challenges experienced when working to translate scientific findings into actionable interventions that improve collaboration. Join us for a reception with hors-d’oeuvres and beverages following the panel.
Speaker
- Stephen Fiore, PhD, Director, Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, University of Central Florida; and Melanie Bauer, Grant Writing Manager, Nova Southeastern University
April 24, 2025 12 p.m. - 2 p.m. • 180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL
Brionna Gee • Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Center for Social & Behavioral Science
https://neuroscience.illinois.edu/sites/default/files/2025-04/Big10%20April%202025%20Purdue.pdf
Speakers
- Yini Li – Epitranscriptomic dysregulation in neurodegenerative diseases.
- Morgan Robinson – Advancing human iPSC models and genome editing for monogenic neurological disorders.
Remote registration
April 28, 2025 11 a.m.
Corrie Whisner, PhD
College of Health Solutions; Arizona State University "From struggles to snuggles: Insights into sleep and gut microbiome development on infant growth and obesity risk"
Speaker
- Corrie Whisner, PhD; College of Health Solutions; Arizona State University
April 29, 2025 12 p.m. • 180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL
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