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!

This exhibition presents a selection of Chinese nianhua and related images exploring Lunar New Year themes and the horse, offering a glimpse into the hopes, stories, and celebrations they carry. May you enjoy an energetic and fruitful year ahead.

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.

Cutler Phillippe will present on Analysis of Parachute Microstructural Strains in 3D with Micro-Computed Tomography and Image Segmentation

Join us for a Research Park Lunar New Year Celebration on Tuesday, February 17 from 12 to 1 p.m.

Come visit Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning at Illinois Innovation Studio between Noon and 4 p.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays in the Armory building room 172. You will be able to interact with generative AI and virtual reality (VR), create a gift with a 3D printer or laser cutter, and interact with our new digital resources.

In this workshop, you will learn the basics of Illinois REDCap and how it can be used for the collection of research data, including how to create projects, instruments, and surveys and how to start collecting research data. It is recommended (but not required) that you have a REDCap account prior to attending the workshop

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.

Excited to share our Spring 2026 CAII seminar: GPU Programming with Triton! An 8‑week, hands‑on series moving from NumPy to high‑performance Triton kernels, including Flash Attention. Tuesdays 3–5 PM, Feb 17–Apr 7 at UIUC. Taught by Priyam Mazumdar. Hybrid format.

Ready to take your education global? Let’s get your adventure off the ground! From short-term programs departing as early as Summer ’26 to long-term excursions you can chart after declaring your major, this workshop will help you plot your course, navigate your options, and set you up for the journey of a lifetime.

Join us on campus at Turner Hall on Tuesday, Feb. 17 from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. for an AgTech Career Panel.

Learn to craft a compelling fellowship proposal.

The WRC has partnered with the Counseling Center and the Champaign-Urbana Public Health Department to provide a FREE training on how to use Narcan! Pizza will be provided for the first 20 participants!

“Single-Molecule Spatial Organization and Dynamics of Nuclear Speckle Components Revealed by MINFLUX Nanoscopy” Minxue Liu, PhD Candidate – Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Suburban inequality and anti-immigrant violence are rising. This talk focuses on Orange County’s Little Saigon and asks, How do suburban communities like Little Saigon resist displacement pressures? How do refugees enact placemaking and fight for immigrant justice in the suburbs?

Learn how to improve the accessibility of your Moodle material by working hands-on with the new FACT Accessibility Checker developed by ATLAS.

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.

Learn to craft a compelling fellowship proposal.

Get up to speed quickly on making your Microsoft Word documents accessible for everyone while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll start with a brief overview of common accessibility challenges in Word and then jump right into practice.

In this session, new podcasters learn how to create an intentional, personalized brand to really make their show their own.

Spurlock Museum is proud to partner with The Literary to present this new community program. Free books will be provided to the first 13 people that sign up for participation: February 18, 2026 6:30-7:30pm - An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

If you like trivia or university history, come to our second Ultimate Archives Trivia! Questions will focus on University of Illinois history involving academics, athletics, inventions, events, faculty, and alumni.

This session covers how to develop the administrative and compliance sections 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!

Come meet a panel of Site Directors from Research Park ready to answer your questions about how to find an internship!

Learn more about immigration options for advanced degree holders

Weekly interactive tabling events to learn about resources for stress management individually and throughout the campus community.

Students are invited to a workshop on in-studio anchoring tips with alum and Emmy-award winner Lauren Scafidi (BS ’19, journalism), anchor and reporter at 9NEWS in Denver, Colorado.

Attend a lecture in the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar "At Risk U: The Past, Present, & Future of Academic Freedom" lecture series with Tristan Ahtone, editor at large for Grist magazine.

On Feb. 19, Champaign-Urbana’s favorite R&B band Ther’Up.Y takes over Stage 5, bringing the funk, the classics, and of course the fun.

Join We CU for a workshop on Entering Community Partnerships. We’ll provide guidance on how to successfully collaborate with community organizations and help you reflect on the role that volunteering plays in your personal and professional growth. Dinner will be provided. Register today!

Join us to celebrate queer art and artists! Enjoy live music, guided tours, hands-on artmaking, artist demonstrations, and hors d’oeuvres. Free and open to everyone. We look forward to welcoming you! *Parking nearby is free after 5 pm.*

Documents must be proactively accessible for all students. This hands-on workshop will cover what to look for and several tools to help you find and fix issues. You’ll learn how to scan multiple document types for accessibility issues and remediate them.

Please join us for a book discussion on, “The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way” by Sara Ahmed. February 20th (Friday) from 11am-12:30pm CST via Zoom. For more information and to register visit https://go.illinois.edu/Feb20bookgroup

This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.

Students are invited to a lunch with alum and Emmy-award winner Lauren Scafidi (BS ’19, journalism), anchor and reporter at 9NEWS in Denver, Colorado. During her time at U of I Scafidi served as president of the Society of Professional Journalists, helped start the University's first morning show Good Morning Illini, hosted a radio show on WPGU-FM, and more.

Master the art of the personal statement.

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.

Professor Jeff Wiggins from the School of Polymer Science and Engineering at the University of Southern Mississippi will discuss how polymer innovations for the aerospace and defense composite material communities translate from the laboratory scale through the pre-qualification scale.

Our partners in Peru will speak about current research on Andean cultural heritage and the ongoing collaborations with Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) and Krannert Art Museum on the "Fragmented Histories: Andean Art Before 1600" exhibition project. Presented in person and via Zoom. En español e inglés.

VR Club at UIUC hosts meetings on Fridays from 4 - 7 PM at the IDEA Lab. Meetings start with MiXR (Meetings involving Extended Reality), an academic forum discussing topics regarding extended reality technology and the metaverse, followed by VR activities. - The Grainger Engineering Library Information Center IDEA Lab

Join us to shut off lights in buildings around campus to save energy and reduce the environmental impact of our massive university!

Join us for a special guided tour exploring the power of percussion across cultures. From war snares and powwow drums to street buckets and modern trap kits, percussion instruments have shaped human experience worldwide. Discover the instruments on display and compare their cultural roles to better understand percussion’s place in global history.

Home is where the heart is, and home also reflects our lives and well-being. Our everyday activities affect how we use resources like water and energy. How can engineering make life at home more sustainable and healthier?

Showcasing the incredible women in STEM organizations on campus, allowing them to share their experiences and inspire younger students to explore engineering. Each organization will have a table with information and a kid-friendly activity relating to their engineering specialty.

Join us for a special guided tour exploring our university’s connections to the artifacts at the Spurlock Museum. Discover how ancient and modern histories shape our campus, from the land’s origins and the Alma Mater’s ties to Ancient Greece to cultural houses, WWI service, and more. Bring your Illini spirit and uncover the past woven into our present.

Enjoy live music and a reception to celebrate "Imagination, Faith, and Desire: Early European Prints from 1475–1800" (on view through Feb 28). The evening will include brief remarks by Curator of European and American Art Maureen Warren and a performance on period instruments by the Urbana Baroque ensemble. *Parking nearby is free after 5 pm and on weekends.*

Science on Tap is a monthly seminar series that brings scientists to the public to talk about their research in an informal setting.

Come visit Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning at Illinois Innovation Studio between Noon and 4 p.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays in the Armory building room 172. You will be able to interact with generative AI and virtual reality (VR), create a gift with a 3D printer or laser cutter, and interact with our new digital resources.