Events
0">Director's Coffee Hour with Steve Maren
0">Beckman Director Steve Maren will be hosting a weekly Director’s Coffee Hour until the Beckman Café reopens. Contact Stacy Olson for details.
0">New-to-Beckman tours
0">Learn something new on a guided tour of the building.
0">Gather in the Garden
0">Grab a cup of coffee and say hello to members of the Beckman community.
0">Yoga at Beckman
0">A free hour of yoga in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome. Bring your own mat.
0">Visualization Laboratory office hours
0">Get started using the lab's data visualization software, high-performance computing, 3D art services, virtual reality content creation and high-speed photography.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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