Events

Director's Coffee Hour with Steve Maren

Beckman Director Steve Maren will be hosting a weekly Director’s Coffee Hour until the Beckman Café reopens. Contact Stacy Olson for details.

Steve Maren in the Beckman Institute.

New-to-Beckman tours

Learn something new on a guided tour of the building.

Beckman in spring, pictured from the ECE Building

Gather in the Garden

Grab a cup of coffee and say hello to members of the Beckman community.

A group of researchers, including Nancy Sottos, enjoy a talkative, lively lunch in Beckman's garden.

Yoga at Beckman

A free hour of yoga in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome. Bring your own mat.

A group of people doing yoga in the fifth-floor Tower Room at the Beckman Institute

Visualization Laboratory office hours

Get started using the lab's data visualization software, high-performance computing, 3D art services, virtual reality content creation and high-speed photography.

Bone image from Visualization Laboratory
  • Oct

    13

    Gather in the Garden

    Beckman Institute Garden

    Event details

    Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Garden!

    Gather in the Garden will take place every Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.

  • Oct

    15

    Annual Pumpkin Painting

    Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology Atrium

    Event details


    Get into the spooky spirit and paint a pumpkin!  
    Please Register to join your fellow Beckman community members for an hour of fun while painting pumpkins at 2pm on October 15th, in the Beckman Institute Atrium prior to the Cookie Collab. Pumpkins and supplies will be provided. Faculty, staff, students, and postdocs are encouraged to attend. Space is limited so register now (and tell a friend)!

  • Oct

    15

    Cookie Collab

    Atrium

    Event details

    Join members of the Beckman community for coffee and cookies in the Beckman Atrium. 

    The Cookie Collab date may be adjusted due to holidays. 

  • Oct

    19

    Beckman Visualization Lab Office Hours

    2203 Beckman Institute

    Event details

    Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

    Manager Juniper Cournoyer will be on hand to help users with the Vis Lab’s equipment and other resources for research. The Vis Lab offers data visualization software, high-performance computing, 3D art services, virtual reality content creation and high-speed photography. Have questions? Email itg-vl@beckman.illinois.edu.  

  • Oct

    20

    Gather in the Garden

    Beckman Institute Garden

    Event details

    Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Garden!

    Gather in the Garden will take place every Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.

  • Oct

    20

    Beckman Core Facilities Tech Talk

    Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

    Event details

    Join us in 1005 Beckman October 20, 2026 for our second Fall Tech Talk with Wawrzyniec L Dobrucki, Neil and Carol Ruzic Faculty Scholar, Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Medicine and Goodluck Okoro, Graduate Student, Bioengineering.  

    Dr. Dobrucki will cover the new scanner’s performance characteristics, including sensitivity, resolution, multimodal registration, and dynamic acquisition.  He will also highlight what the new system makes possible compared with the previous platform and include two or three selected application examples.  Goodluck Okoro will cover computational methods for extracting quantitative structural and functional measurements from molecular imaging data.

    Lunch will be provided.  

  • Oct

    20

    Beckman Visualization Lab Office Hours

    2203 Beckman Institute

    Event details

    Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

    Manager Juniper Cournoyer will be on hand to help users with the Vis Lab’s equipment and other resources for research. The Vis Lab offers data visualization software, high-performance computing, 3D art services, virtual reality content creation and high-speed photography. Have questions? Email itg-vl@beckman.illinois.edu.  

  • Oct

    21

    Visit with Therapy Dog K9 ROSIE

    Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology Atrium

    Event details

    K9 Rosie will be at the Beckman Atrium on Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:30am.  

    All are welcome to stop in and say hello!

    K9 Rosie is an I-PAWS Therapy K9, specializing in providing comfort, reducing stress and responding to mental health emergencies or campus events.  Rosie was rescued from the Brevard County Animal Shelter and trained via Paws & Stripes College and basic inmate obedience programs before joining UIPD.  K9 Rosie and her colleagues can be found on various social media platforms, including Instagram and Facebook. For a sneak peak at a day in the life of K9 Rosie, check out her TikTok.

  • Oct

    22

    Beckman Institute Lunch and Learn: Recruiting Underrepresented Populations

    Room 5602 Beckman Institute

    Event details

    Join us at the Beckman Institute for a Lunch and Learn focused on recruiting underrepresented populations in research. There will be a few short talks followed by a discussion section. 

    Please sign up here. To guarantee a lunch, sign up by Oct 9

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  • Oct

    22

    Beckman Visualization Lab Office Hours

    2203 Beckman Institute

    Event details

    Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.

    Manager Juniper Cournoyer will be on hand to help users with the Vis Lab’s equipment and other resources for research. The Vis Lab offers data visualization software, high-performance computing, 3D art services, virtual reality content creation and high-speed photography. Have questions? Email itg-vl@beckman.illinois.edu.  

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