Materials Science and Engineering Calendar

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

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  Soft Materials Seminar - "Frontally-Cured Self-Protecting Thermosets for Space Applications"

  4:00 pm

  119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Soft Materials Seminar - "Side-Chain and Backbone Design of Electrochromic Polymers for Optical Detection of Bioelectric Signals"

  4:00 pm

  119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 16, 2026

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  Hard Materials Seminar - "Multislice Ptychography on an Uncorrected Electron Microscope"

  4:00 pm

  100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Hard Materials Seminar - "Thermal resistance characterization & thermal conductivity study in  electronic devices"

  4:00 pm

  100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 20, 2026

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  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Sensing and Shaping Biological Membranes through Protein-Lipid Interactions"

  4:00 pm

  100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 21, 2026

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  Soft Materials Seminar

  4:00 pm

  119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Soft Materials Seminar

  4:00 pm

  119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 23, 2026

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  Hard Materials Seminar - "How to Publish in Nature-Branded Journals"

  4:00 pm

  100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 30, 2026

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  Hard Materials Seminar

  4:00 pm

  100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Hard Materials Seminar - "Monolithic three-dimensional integration of single-crystalline silicon transistors"

  4:00 pm

  100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, May 4, 2026

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  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - Racheff Student Awardees

  4:00 pm

  100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 5, 2026

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  Soft Materials Seminar

  4:00 pm

  119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Soft Materials Seminar - "Rational design of immune-cell-homing macroporous hydrogels for enhanced dendritic cell recruitment and cancer vaccination"

  4:00 pm

  119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

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  Instruction Ends

  All Day

  • Other

Thursday, May 7, 2026

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  Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect

  All Day

  • Other

Friday, May 8, 2026

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  Final Exams Begin

  All Day

  • Other

Saturday, May 16, 2026

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  Commencement

  8:30 am

  Memorial Stadium

  • Ceremony/Service

Monday, May 18, 2026

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  First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 1

  All Day

  • Other

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

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  First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 2

  All Day

  • Other

Monday, August 24, 2026

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  First Day of Instruction, Fall Semester

  All Day

  your class

  • Other

Saturday, November 21, 2026

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  Fall break begins

  8:30 am

  Swanlund Administration Building

  • Ceremony/Service

Monday, November 30, 2026

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  Instruction resumes

  All Day

  I-Hotel

  • Other

Wednesday, December 9, 2026

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  Last Day of Instruction, Fall Semester

  All Day

  • Other

Friday, December 11, 2026

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  Final Exams Begin

  8:30 am

  • Ceremony/Service

Friday, December 18, 2026

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  First Day of Instruction, Winter Session

  All Day

  • Ceremony/Service

Friday, January 15, 2027

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  Winter Session Final Exams Begin

  8:30 am

  • Ceremony/Service

Tuesday, January 19, 2027

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  First Day of Instruction, Spring Semester

  All Day

  • Other

Saturday, March 13, 2027

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  Spring Vacation Begins

  1:00 pm

  • Other

Monday, March 22, 2027

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  Instruction resumes

  7:00 am

  • Other