Research Seminars @ Illinois
Tailored for undergraduate researchers, this calendar is a curated list of research seminars at the University of Illinois. Explore the diverse world of research and expand your knowledge through engaging sessions designed to inspire and enlighten.
To have your events added or removed from this calendar, please contact OUR at ugresearch@illinois.edu
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11:00 am - 1:00 pm 3/2/2026Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W. Illinois St -
11:00 am 3/2/20263401 Siebel Center -
12:00 - 1:00 pm 3/2/2026Kirkland & Ellis Classroom (A), College of Law, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue, Champaign, IL -
12:00 pm 3/2/2026Charles G. Miller Auditorium -
1:00 pm 3/2/2026Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236 -
4:00 pm 3/2/2026100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street -
4:00 pm 3/2/2026Nathan M. Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory -
4:00 - 5:00 pm 3/2/20263102 Siebel Center -
11:00 am - 12:00 pm 3/3/2026190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Ethan Lake, Miller Fellow, University of California - Berkeley
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12:00 pm 3/3/2026612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic BiologyShai Bel, PhD Azrieli Faculty of Medicine; Bar-Ilan University “Partners in Slime: Host-Microbiota Interactions in the Gut Mucus Layer”
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2:00 - 3:00 pm 3/3/2026Levis Faculty Center 919 W. Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 Room 210 -
2:00 - 3:20 pm 3/3/2026317 David Kinley Hall -
3:00 pm 3/3/2026114 Huff HallPlease join the HRI Sport Studies Research Cluster for a guest talk by Dr. Anna Baeth, senior research manager for Athlete Ally. Her talk will center on the science of trans athletes. What does bench science empirically prove about transgender athletes and their place in sport?
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3:30 pm 12/02/2025 3/3/2026Chemistry Annex, Room 1024 -
3:30 pm 12/02/2025 3/3/2026Chemistry Annex, Room 1024 -
4:00 pm 5:00 pm 3/3/2026Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:00 pm 3/3/2026Beckman Institute 1005 -
4:00 - 4:50 pm 3/3/20264025 Campus Instructional FacilityLectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
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5:30 - 6:30 pm 3/3/2026Asian American Cultural Center -
11:00 am 3/4/2026Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236 -
12:00 - 1:00 pm 3/4/2026428 Mumford Hall -
12:00 pm 3/4/2026Charles G. Miller Auditorium -
12:00 pm 3/4/2026612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology“Targeted drug delivery to tumor associated macrophages in glioblastoma mouse models" Urbi Saha, PhD Student Department of Neuroscience, University of Illinois
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12:00 pm 01:30 pm 3/4/2026Conference Room 1201 W. Nevada St., Urbana, IL -
4:00 - 5:00 pm 3/4/2026Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102 -

The Physics Colloquium: Rafael Fernandes "Altermagnetism: an unconventional quantum state of matter"
4:00 - 5:00 pm 3/4/2026Loomis Lab 141 -
4:00 - 7:00 pm 3/4/2026314 A Illini Union -
10:00 - 11:00 am 3/5/2026CIF 2035 -
11:00 am 3/5/2026140 Burrill HallSpeaker: Jonathan Hanselman (Indiana)
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11:00 am - 12:15 pm 3/5/20264045 School of Information Sciences -
11:00 am - 12:20 pm 3/5/20264045 School of Information Sciences -
12:00 pm 3/5/2026612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology"Biocluster Overview" David Slater Associate Director of High Performance Computing
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12:00 pm 3/5/2026217 Noyes Lab -
12:30 - 1:30 pm 3/5/2026Siebel Center for Design- Sunset Studio 1050The ICR Colloquium Series is an interdisciplinary forum that brings together faculty, researchers, staff, graduate students, and interested undergraduates to engage in dialogue around some of the most relevant and timely research in our field.
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1:00 - 2:00 pm 3/5/2026190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Hong-Ye Hu, Harvard Quantum Initiative (HQI) Fellow, Harvard University
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2:00 pm 3/5/2026116 Roger Adams Lab -
2:00 - 3:00 pm 3/5/2026ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866 -
4:00 pm 5:00 pm 3/5/2026Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:00 - 5:00 pm 3/5/20261002 Grainger Auditorium -
4:00 pm 3/5/2026 - 3/6/2026Levis Faculty Center 208Join us for the NAIL Lab's inaugural talk and workshop of the "Visiting with and alongside Indigenous Language Workers: Conversations on Ethics and Praxis in Language Work" series. Materials are said to be in cold storage when they are placed where they can be stabilized and cared for long-term.
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4:30 - 5:30 pm 3/5/2026116 Roger Adams Lab -
5:00 pm 3/5/2026Knight Auditorium, Spurlock MuseumProfessor Buff (Univ. of Wisconsin) traces the rise of private consultancies from 20th-century managerial capitalism and the military-industrial complex to their entry into higher education during neoliberal reforms of the 1980s, expanding further through disaster capitalism after the 2008 Great Recession and the Covid-19 pandemic.
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5:00 - 6:00 pm 3/5/2026Room 215 (Faculty Lounge), College of Law, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue Champaign, IL 61820 -
10:00 - 10:50 am 3/6/2026Room 1310 Digital Computer Laboratory 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801 -
11:00 am 3/6/2026Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236 -
11:00 - 11:50 am 3/6/2026Bevier Hall- Room 180FSHN Graduate Seminar Presenter: Brian Imai, PhD Proteomics Laboratory Supervisor Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Title: Proteomics and its applications
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12:00 pm 3/6/2026School of Labor and Employment Relations -
12:00 pm 3/6/2026Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL -
1:00 pm 3/6/20261024 Chem Annex -
3:00 pm 3/6/2026W-109 Turner Hall -
3:00 pm 3/6/20262049 Natural History Building and via Zoom -
3:00 - 4:15 pm 3/6/20262049 Natural History Building and via ZoomPermutable Sky: Stratospheric Photosurveillance and the Geopolitics of the Open Secret by Dr. Jerry Zee, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University.
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3:00 - 4:30 pm 3/6/2026Beckman Institute Auditorium -
4:00 pm 3/6/20261214 Siebel Center -
6:00 - 7:30 pm 3/6/2026 -
8:30 am 3/7/2026Levis Faculty Center, Room 210This informal group aims to bring together graduate students from across campus to share their enthusiasm for the thought-provoking scholarship that animates them as people. Light refreshments will be provided. This edition of Scholarship Out Loud will be part of the 2026 Women’s and Gender History Symposium.
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10:30 - 11:30 am 3/7/2026Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., ChampaignJoin us for a special tour led by exhibiting artists from Another Place: Storymaking the Entangled Prairie. Gain insights into their creative practice and research. Today's tour features Brooke C. White (photography) and Emmy Lingscheit (printmaking). *Parking nearby is free on after 5 pm and on weekends.*
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1:30 pm 3/7/2026Spurlock Museum: 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801Come learn about robots and the important women who shaped the field with FRC Team 4096, Ctrl-Z. Alongside Frisbee Bot, our frisbee-throwing robot, visitors will explore the ins and outs of FIRST Robotics Competition robots while also learning about women who profoundly influenced them.
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm 3/9/20263401 Siebel Center -
12:00 pm 3/9/2026Charles G. Miller Auditorium -
12:00 pm 3/9/2026Civil and Environmental Engineering Building Room 3017 -
1:00 pm 3/9/2026Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236 -
4:00 pm 3/9/2026100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street -
4:00 pm 3/9/2026116 Roger Adams Lab -
4:00 - 4:50 pm 3/9/2026HAB 156Graduate Student Homotopy Theory Seminar
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AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Morteza Lahijanian - Scalable Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Complex Goals
4:00 - 5:00 pm 3/9/2026CIF 2035 -
4:00 - 5:00 pm 3/9/20263102 Siebel Center






