Wellness for All Students

“Wellness” is a general term for student health: physical and psychological, in life inside and outside of academic experience.

Student wellness has become one of the top priorities on campus. Many students are feeling overwhelmed by the pressure of achievement and glorification of stress.

A new Web resource has been established as a first jumping off place for wellness resources on campus.

Be Well! Visit  Wellness.Illinois.edu  to start a road to being well and happy and fulfilled in your life!

 

Paid Writers Workshop consultant opportunity and course

Dear colleagues,
Please help spread the word about WRIT 300: Issues in Tutoring Writing. Students must successfully complete this course to become a paid undergraduate consultant with the Writers Workshop. Here’s a brief description:
This course provides an introduction to the work of writing centers, theories of composition, and writing pedagogy. You’ll learn about writing processes, working with multilingual writers, and techniques for the one-to-one teaching of writing. You’ll also write, share your writing with others, conduct a writing-related research project, and observe and participate in tutoring sessions. The course meets for two hours each week; students also independently schedule one additional hour each week observing and co-consulting in the Writers Workshop.
Fall 2024 sections and times are:
MW 11-11:50am
MW 5-5:50pm
This course is also great option for students interested in teaching English, conducting qualitative research, and improving their own writing.
Of course, please reach out with any questions. Many thanks!
Best,
Carolyn
Carolyn Wisniewski
Director, Writers Workshop
Center for Writing Studies
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Hiring Pre-Health Student Ambassadors for 2024-2025

The Pre-Health Team in The Career Center is looking to hire Pre-Health Student Ambassadors for the 2024-2025 school year. Please share the attached flyer to students who may be interested. For further information, see below. The deadline to apply is March 18. Please reach out to Grace Yun (yeyun2@illinois.edu) if you or your students have any questions. Thanks ahead of time!
Here is the link to apply: https://forms.illinois.edu/sec/668646164
Description: The Pre-Health Ambassadors provide assistance to The Career Center’s (TCC) Health Professions and Graduate School Preparation Team on projects related to preparation and application to health professional school programs (medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, etc.). Ambassadors engage in both small and large projects while receiving continuous personalized professional development from TCC staff. They host information sessions, offer peer advising, and provide insights to prospective students and their families. We are looking for highly motivated students with diverse experiences to apply their knowledge and effectively communicate their experiences to students in the pre-health community.
Qualifications:
  • Currently enrolled undergraduate student
  • Enrolled consecutively & full-time for the upcoming Fall and Spring semester at UIUC
  • Committed to a pre-health track (e.g., pre-med, pre-PA, pre-OT).
  • Any majors welcome!
  • Hours are flexible per week (in person/virtual options possible)
  • Available to attend staff meetings, as needed
  • Willing and available to host campus workshops after 5 p.m., if needed
  • Available to attend paid, staff training sessions, if hired
Compensation: $15 hourly

Writer’s Workshop

The Writers Workshop provides free, one-to-one writing feedback for any type of writing and at any stage of the writing process. This includes course papers, speeches, senior capstones, personal statements, resumes and cover letters, group writing projects, theses or dissertations, or manuscripts for publication. We have appointments and drop-in hours, and we’re available in-person and online.

In addition to our one-to-one writing feedback, we host a range of presentations and events. More information is available on our calendar, and I’ve attached an at-a-glance-schedule.

Please contact me with any questions.
Sincerely,
Carolyn
Carolyn Wisniewski
Director, Writers Workshop
Center for Writing Studies
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

1 and 2 credit courses for Fall 24

If your students are looking to fill in one or two credit hours, we have seats left in the following courses. These courses are available to students in any department and in any major.

 

TE 100 – Introduction to Innovation, Leadership and Engineering Entrepreneurship (1 credit hour)

TE 360 – Lectures in Engineering Entrepreneurship (1 credit hour)

TE 390 – Innovation and Engineering Design (2 credit hours)

 

Please let me know if you have any questions and stay safe out there!

 

Laura

 

 

LAURA A. MILLER

Academic Adviser & Coordinator of Academic Programs

The Grainger College of Engineering | Technology Entrepreneur Center
364 Coordinated Science Lab | 1308 W. Main St.
Urbana, IL 61801 | 217.333.4704 | arriola@illinois.edu

Voyager Scholarship Information Sessions & Workshop

Voyager Scholarship Information Sessions & Workshop

Have you demonstrated a commitment to public service? Do you plan to purse a career in public service upon graduation?  If so, the Voyager Scholarship is for you!

Eligibility
U.S. citizens, permanent residents, or DACA recipients who are entering their junior year (will be a junior in the Fall 2024), with a 3.0+ GPA and demonstrated financial need are eligible to apply. 

The Voyager Scholarship (Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service) is awarded to students focused on public service careers. A career in public service includes a range of occupations in government, non-profits or the private sector, from community organizing to social work and from entrepreneurship to the arts—all committed to solving our biggest challenges together. It provides up to $80,000 toward your education ($25,000/yr of financial aid for junior and senior year, $10,000 for a summer experience, and $2,000 annually for 10 years for travel). 

Learn about recent Illinois Voyager Scholars.

Deadline
The priority campus deadline is
 February 22, 2024 at 12:00pm (noon). 
The final submittal deadline is in
March 2024, the date is TBA.

Application Preparation
If you are interested in applying,
please attend our informational session:   

IN-PERSON Voyager Scholarship Information Session

Tuesday, January 30th, 2024, 3:30-4:30 pm

514 Illini Union Bookstore Building, Floor 5

For more information, contact the scholarships office at topscholars@illinois.edu or visit our website at www.topscholars.illinois.edu 

We hope you’ll join us!

Lara Kusnetzky, Ph.D.
Assistant Director

 

Book time with Lara Kusnetzky here

 

Book time with David Schug here

 

LARA R KUSNETZKY, Ph.D.

Assistant Director

 

National and International Scholarships Program
Illini Union Bookstore Building, 5th Floor
807 S. Wright St, Suite 520 | M/C 317
Champaign, IL 61820
217.333.4710 | topscholars@illinois.edu
topscholars.illinois.edu/

Exciting Art and Design special topics courses

There are still seats left in these exciting special topics courses, ARTD 499. These classes are great for students interested in putting their creative mind to work in unique ways—plus they’re just exciting topics with even better professors! Read on to learn more:

 

ARTD 499 section CAU, CRN 53743 | TR 2-4:40 | Prof. Araujo de Aguiar

Topic: Nexus of Tomorrow: Navigating Speculative Design & Social Impact. This course explores the nexus of speculative design and societal impacts of tech advancements, focusing not just on future artifacts, but the societies that will use them.

 

ARTD 499 section MBU, CRN 59100 | MW 4-6:40 | Prof. Briggs

Interactive Print: Advanced engagement with typographic systems and word-image dialectics in historic and contemporary print media. This hybrid studio/seminar* course surveys immersive and interactive rhetorics in books, maps, posters and wheel charts since 1450 and invites students to identify historic exemplars, research their cultural and technological disposition, analyze their immersive and interactive features, re-create them as facsimiles, and develop original works that build on their effects and interests. In so doing we will analyze the ongoing role of print media in shaping built and social space, and in shaping digital artifacts and systems.

 

ARTD 499 section SR, CRN 60101 | TR 2-4:40 | Prof. Robinson

Illustration: Afrofuturism, Black Futures Now. In this studio course, students will create imagined futures where Black people share political, environmental, and economic resources equally with all people. After that students will create an individualized self-identification project encompassing one or more of three main ideas: their personal narrative, their family culture, their intellectual property. Students will work in a variety of medium with an additional layer of media: music, performance, animation, motion, new media, etc. To help us think through these ideas we will watch a wide range of movies, and documentaries while exploring various readings and converse with guest speakers who are professionals in their fields. Students will develop their projects for exhibition, publication, online postings, etc. This course is open to undergraduates and graduate students.

Office of Undergraduate Research Spring workshops

Dear Colleagues,

Greetings from the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR)! As we prepare for the upcoming Spring 2024 semester, we’re thrilled to share OUR’s Spring workshop calendar. We will be offering both in-person and virtual dates for each workshop.

We kindly ask that you please distribute this notice to undergraduates in your unit and encourage them to participate. To support your promotional efforts, we’ve prepared promotional graphics and flyers, accessible through the link below. We hope you will assist us in promoting these workshops by including these graphics in your emails to students and newsletters, and by posting them to digital signs on campus (e.g., screens in departmental lobbies, residence halls, etc.).

Link to Workshop Promotional Graphics

The Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) announces its Spring 2024 workshop calendar. We are offering a variety of in-person and virtual workshops to support you regardless of where you are in your research journey. Information for each workshop including how you can register can be found on our website or by clicking the name of each workshop below.

For all workshops, we will be offering both virtual and in-person dates. Participation is by advanced registration only; there are a limited number of spots available for each workshop, so please sign up as soon as possible. Workshops will be added throughout the term based on demand.

We’ve organized our workshops by “stage in the research process” to help you more easily find the workshops that best pertain to you.

Starting Your Research Journey

Getting Started in Undergraduate Research

During this workshop, we will discuss the various forms of undergraduate research that take place on campus, guide students to develop a plan of action to locate research opportunities on campus, and discuss ways to contact faculty research mentors.

Research Bites

Don’t have time for a 1-hour workshop? Join OUR for coffee, tea, and cookies in one of our quick (15 minutes) information packed workshops.

  • A Quick Overview of How to Begin Your Research Journey at Illinois
  • Crafting a Successful Email to a Prospective Research Mentor
  • Discovering the Potential of Undergraduate Research
  • Finding Summer Research Opportunities

Highlighting and Communicating Your Research

Preparing to Present at the Undergraduate Research Symposium

Prepare to give a successful presentation at the Undergraduate Research Symposium (URS) by attending two insightful URS-themed workshops. The first, “The Application,” delves into URS details, application insights, and presentation types. The second, “The Event,” covers crafting and delivering engaging and successful presentations. While tailored for URS preparation, both sessions are beneficial for any student gearing up for a presentation. Join us for a comprehensive guide to showcasing your research effectively.

Poster Presentation and Design

During this workshop, we will give students the tools for communicating their research in a concise and visually effective poster presentation. Students that are preparing for a presentation for class or conference are encouraged to sign up.

Proposal Writing for Undergraduate Researchers

During this workshop, we will discuss the fundamentals of proposal writing, guiding students to formulate successful research projects and explain their research in a concise and compelling manner that is understandable to a general audience. We highly encourage students interested in applying for OUR’s Research Support Grant to attend.

Research to Resume Workshop

During this workshop, we will discuss strategies to successfully communicate research skills and experiences through job, graduate school, and internship application documents.

OUR is always here to help; schedule an appointment with our staff to discuss your research journey today! For more information, please visit: http://go.illinois.edu/askOUR

Sincerely,

OFFICE OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH

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Courses open with INNER VOICES Social Issues Theatre

Leading Post-Performance Dialog (THEA 417/GWS 417)

Arts engagement exploration and the dramaturge in social issues theatre. Includes hands-on experience of animateur (facilitation) work with INNER VOICES Social Issues Theatre.

Great class for those who want to use theatre in their work (social workers, educators, and other community-focused practitioners).

https://courses.illinois.edu/schedule/2023/spring/THEA/417

4 credits or I unit

Devising Social Issues Theatre (THEA 418/GWS 418)

Focus on writing and devising theatre explicitly concerned with social issues in the context of community. Works created in this course often go on to be performed by the INNER VOICES Social Issues Theatre ensemble.

https://courses.illinois.edu/schedule/2023/spring/THEA/418

3 credits or I unit

INNER VOICES Social Issues Theatre Ensemble (THEA 400M)

The focus of the ensemble is public performances. Open to all students. While past

experience is useful, it is not necessary. Students may choose to receive credit for their participation in the ensemble.

https://courses.illinois.edu/schedule/2023/spring/THEA/400

2 credits

Please feel free to contact me, or have students contact me directly with questions,

Many thanks,

Lisa

LISA FAY MFA
(Pronouns She/Her/Hers)

Program Coordinator | INNER VOICES Social Issues Theatre program

Ensemble Director| INNER VOICES Social Issues Theatre ensemble

INSTRUCTOR | Devising Social Issues Theatre . Theatre/Gender and Women’s Studies 418