Friday October 9, 2026

Reception, Film Screening, and Panel Discussion: "The Librarians"

Join us for a screening of "The Librarians." Special guest, Becky Calzada, a librarian featured in the film, will be present after the screening for a fireside chat with Interim Dean Emily Knox, followed by a live audience Q&A.

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• Wednesday

  October 28

  Movie Night: My Neighbor Totoro

  5:00 - 7:00 PM

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  Beckman announces 2026 research seed grant project

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  Nitin Verma selected as a Public Voices fellow

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  Dong Wang receives grant for human-centered AI project

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• Tuesday

  October 27

  UIAA Speaker Series: Michael Twidale

  6:00 - 7:00 PM

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  Jarrett Dapier's graphic novel named to Book Riot "best-of" lists

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Other recent news

Evan Guerra wants to make scents of the data

October 12 2026

PhD student Evan Guerra is trying to find a way, turning unstructured smell descriptions based on free-text human responses into structured text computers can understand. He is also working to predict the smell of molecules from their structure. Both projects are key tasks on the way to enable computer understanding of smell. 

Wendy Rein selected as the 2026 ALA Century Scholarship recipient

October 8 2026

MSLIS student Wendy Rein has been selected to receive the 2026 American Library Association (ALA) Century Scholarship.

iSchool researchers to present their work at ESC 2026

October 6 2026

iSchool researchers will present their work this week at the Engagement Scholarship Consortium's 2026 annual conference in Knoxville, Tennessee. The theme of this year's conference is "Changing Lives and Improving Society: Data-Driven Engagement and Innovation." ESC's goal is to work collaboratively to build strong university-community partnerships anchored in the rigor of scholarship and designed to help build community capacity.

Jiaqi Ma receives AICE grant

October 5 2026

Assistant Professor Jiaqi Ma has received a grant from the Amazon-Illinois Center on AI for Interactive Conversational Experiences. AICE is a collaboration between Amazon and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to develop intelligent conversational systems that demonstrate contextual understanding and emotional intelligence, allow for personalization, and can interpret non-verbal communication while being ethical and fair.