April 14, 2025
3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Student Union Ballroom Center
2251 Richard Wright Dr
Springfield, IL 62703
Join us for a unique opportunity to connect and learn with Visionary Giving Circle members, UIS Faculty, and Students through an engaging panel discussion.
The Future of Women’s Leadership: Breaking Barriers and Building Bridges
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In the Student Union Central Ballroom on April 11th at 1:30 the university will host the Outstanding Master's Thesis Awardee Presentation. This event honors the graduate student who won the award for the outstanding master's thesis in 2023-24 (last year). They will usually discuss their thesis for about fifteen to twenty minutes after they receive their award.
Keynote Speaker is Dr. Aleksander Ksiazkiewicz, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Sleepy Citizenship: The Biopolitics of Rest in American Democracy
From 11:00am to 12:30pm on Friday, April 11th students from UIS will present posters of their research or specimens of their art work and meet with visitors to the Student Technology, Arts, and Research Symposium. The poster and art exhibition takes place just outside the main central ballroom in the UIS Student Union.
Students will present their research on Friday morning, April 11th, between 8:30 and 11:00am. The north and south sections of the main ballroom will be portioned off so that there will be four presentation rooms (two on the north side, and two on the south side of the main ballroom in the Student Union). A detailed schedule of presentations will be available so that students and audiences will know where and when each presentation is scheduled.
On Thursday, April 10th, students will set up their posters and art work in the Student Union on the landing outside the Central Ballroom. The poster exhibition will be on Friday, April 11th from 11:00 to 12:30, but students should put up their work on Thursday so that the community will be able to admire and study their work before the exhibition time on Friday.
Live oral presentations are Friday from 8:30-11:00.
The Poster and Art Exhibition is on Friday from 11:00am to 12:30pm.
Thursday, April 10th, 4:00 to 6:00. To be held online with Zoom. Zoom link forthcoming.
Friday, April 11th from 8:30 -Noon. UIS Student Union. First Floor, near North Entrance Doors
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