Stop by to visit our display for International Bat Week to learn about bats! 🦇The display features real-life bat specimens, 3-D printed bat skulls, and an accompanying book cart full of fun bat books to check out! @illinoisnres.bsky.social@prairieresearch.bsky.social
Show your love of fat bears with fan art! Illinois students, submit original fat bear themed art in any medium by September 26! Winner will be announced October 1, and will win "The Bears of Brooks Falls"! Send digital copies and questions to PRI librarian, Emily Benton, at [email protected]
We're marking 40 years of @farmaid.org concerts! 🎵 Visit our farm crisis exhibit to learn what led to the 1985 concert at Memorial Stadium.🌽🐄Join us at @spurlockmuseum.bsky.social on 9/21 for an event highlighting this history, with related exhibits on view at the Music and Performing Arts Library!
Interested in learning more about the databases available to you as a student? Come to Funk ACES's Savvy Researcher sessions on PubMed and Web of Science! Learn more and register at: go.library.illinois.edu/SavvyResearc...
On May 8th, Funk Library will be showing Rachel Carson: The Woman Who Launched the Modern Environmental Movement from 2pm-4pm for Reading Day, in Room 509! Bring coursework to work on, or just De-Stress for finals! To sign up, follow this link: go.cgs.illinois.edu/StudyTV.
Funk Library’s Summer course reserve deadline is April 30! Instructors: we can hold a book for your summer course students for 2-hour, in library use. Submit your requests by the deadline.
Meet our upcoming panelists! Steve Wilson is a Groundwater Hydrologist and Head for the Environmental Public Health, Information and Data Services Section at the Illinois State Water Survey (ISWS), Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois. He authored and manages The Private Well Class.
Meet our upcoming panelists! Omar Pérez Figueroa is an Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is dedicated to supporting underrepresented and disenfranchised communities in addressing environmental inequalities.
Meet our upcoming panelists! McKenzie Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She engages in research at the intersection of environmental politics, human security, and environmental justice.
Our exhibit for the upcoming Spring Panel, Solving the World's Challenges: Environmental Justice is up for viewing! Come browse our display, checkout our Libguide, and consider attending the event in person or via Zoom! @illinoisnres.bsky.social @prairieresearch.bsky.social
On March 5th, 1973, Mario Fabbrini held a funeral for thousands of frozen pizza pies. 52 years later, Funk ACES is celebrating the legacy of the Great Michigan Pizza Funeral with an event to educate and entertain the community. Photo by: United Press International #UIUC#FoodSafety#BookSky
Come check out The Human Menstrual Cycle exhibit at Funk! It features reusable period products provided by Greener Goods Shop + Refillery. This small business offers reusable products in Champaign, and we're thrilled to have worked with them to create this display! #UIUC#sustainability#booksky
Check out a book and join the adventure of blind dating with the unique, cute, and beautiful animals! No judging by the cover—just take a chance and discover a new favorite!
We are celebrating the 42nd Insect Film Fear Festival with Mae Berenbaum and the Entomology Graduate Student Association (EGSA)! Check out our Tarantulas exhibit to learn more about theses creatures and grab a craft bag to DIY your fat spider or spider ring!
Meet Yanling! She is a second year graduate student. Her favorite project that she's worked on at Funk has been the Chinese New Year event. Her favorite class in the iSchool has been e-Learning. She is interested in academic librarianship! #skybrarian
