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    • 2 May 2025
    • 6:15 PM - 8:30 PM
    • Illini Union - Illini Rooms ABC
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    When registering groups or multiple tickets:

    Please choose the type of meal ticket the majority of your party wants- Chicken or Vegetarian(Pasta). Count the person filling out the form as person 1 then add additional tickets for other guests wanting that type of meal.

    Repeat the process as needed for the other meal ticket type.

    You WILL have to complete 2 purchases if buying tickets for both meal types.

    • 3 May 2025
    • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
    • Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (Guided Tour 1)
    • 30
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    Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (Guided Tour 1)

    1 pm -Around the World

    By nature, human beings are alike. By practice, they become different. ~Confucius

    What is a world cultures museum? From statues to armor, mummies to masks, we exhibit artifacts that illustrate the shared challenges of humanity and celebrate the diverse ways cultures respond to them. 

    Through this tour, visitors will view the Museum’s 5 permanent galleries and critically engage at minimum one specific artifact within each gallery, selected and highlighted by a gallery guide. Time can also be allotted for guests to explore any current temporary exhibits.



    • 3 May 2025
    • 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    • Prairie Fruits Farm & Creamery
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    Behind the scenes farm tour with an expanded educational topic - Breed Genetics, AND cheese tasting.

    Farm tour touches on the farm system from grass to goats to cheese. Light cheese tasting included. 

    Breed Genetics 

    We will dive into identifying our two goat breeds (La Mancha and Nubian), identifying each breed and their hybrid by visible traits (ears), curating a conversation about which traits are important to breed for in dairy goats, with students/guests having the opportunity to discuss and decide their own goals, and hearing from our Heard Manager, Rose, on the breeding goals that our farm pursues and how Rose tracks those.

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    • 3 May 2025
    • 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM
    • UCSD Urbana-Champaign Sanitary District
    • 30
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    Urbana & Champaign Sanitrary District
    May 3, 2025
    1:15 pm - 2:30 pm 

    FREE/person 

    Must preregister

    https://ijas.wildapricot.org/event-6138001

    Behind the Scenes at UCSD

    During this tour, guests will see how UCSD uses natural processes to clean up sewage from homes and businesses in the twin cities. The main result 15 million gallons per day of water that is clean enough to go into a creek. They also create a fertilizer-rich soil amendment for farmers' fields and generate about half a megawatt of electricity and two-thirds of the heat needed for their operations.

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    • 3 May 2025
    • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    • Parkland College - William M. Staerkel Planetarium
    • 20
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    Unveiling the Invisible Universe

    2 pm - includes a short tour of the night sky with a live presenter.

    Humans have long observed light coming from the night sky, and the invention of the telescope revolutionized our knowledge of the universe. Rockets allow us to go above Earth’s atmosphere and observe x-ray and gamma radiation which are marks of the hot and violent universe. Aside from light, neutrinos and cosmic rays also provide vital information about the cosmos. Finally, the detection of gravitational waves from two merging black holes opened a new window in astrophysics. This video presents images of the cosmos as revealed by all these different messengers.

    Parkland College - William M. Staerkel Planetarium

    2400 W Bradley Ave, Champaign, IL 61821

    • 3 May 2025
    • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    • Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (Guided Tour 2)
    • 30
    Register

    Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (Guided Tour 2)

    2 pm -Around the World

    By nature, human beings are alike. By practice, they become different. ~Confucius

    What is a world cultures museum? From statues to armor, mummies to masks, we exhibit artifacts that illustrate the shared challenges of humanity and celebrate the diverse ways cultures respond to them. 

    Through this tour, visitors will view the Museum’s 5 permanent galleries and critically engage at minimum one specific artifact within each gallery, selected and highlighted by a gallery guide. Time can also be allotted for guests to explore any current temporary exhibits.



    • 3 May 2025
    • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    • UIUC - Pollinatarium 606 W. Windsor Rd., Urbana, IL
    • 50
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    Behind the Scenes at UIUC Pollinatarium

    The University of Illinois Pollinatarium is the first free-standing science center in the nation devoted to flowering plants and their pollinators. Join us on a behind the scenes tour and explore the 

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    Location: 606 W. Windsor Rd., Urbana, IL

Past events

28 Apr 2023 SIU Pizza Party
28 Apr 2023 IJAS Pizza Pie & PI
22 Apr 2022 2022 IJAS State Banquet
5 Mar 2022 Region 5 - Regional Paper Session
11 Sep 2021 Fall Conference
31 Jul 2021 Annual General Meeting
1 Apr 2021 Spring Gala
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