College of LAS: For Faculty & Staff

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Friday, May 2, 2025

- 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
- Latzer Hall YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St. Champaign
Palestine in the World Roundtable with Michelle Campos “Unmixing the Holy City: Religion, Politics, and Neighborhood Segregation in 19th-20th Century Jerusalem” and Charles Anderson "The Palestinian National Movement between Constitutionalism and Revolt, 1929-1939."
- Lecture
- 2:00 pm
Timbuktu Talks: Louis Brenner
- Lecture
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102
2025 Flygare Memorial Lecture: Professor Emily A. Carter, Princeton University, "Carbon Dioxide Conversion for a Sustainable Future: Research and Policy"
- Lecture

Monday, May 5, 2025

- 3:00 pm
- Paul M. Lisnek LAS Hub in Lincoln Hall
SourceLab Mondays

Join SourceLab every Monday, 3-5 in the Paul A. Lisnek LAS Hub in Lincoln Hall for SourceLab Mondays.
- Meeting

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

- 9:00 am
- 1306 Everitt Laboratory
FINAL DEFENSE, Kyle Benjamin Timmer, "Development of Multicompartment Biomaterials to Modulate Cellular Environments for Improved Tendon-to-Bone Rotator Cuff Repair"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Emily Davidson, Princeton University, (host: Ying Diao)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
"Molecular Catalysts go Nano: Installing Active Sites on Clusters and Nanosheets", Professor Alexandra Velian, University of Washington
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 - 4:45 pm
- 134 Astronomy Building
Probing the Galactic Baryon Cycle in our Solar Neighborhood (and Beyond)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student/Postdoc Seminar: Courtney Hill/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Elizabeth Rowland/Brooke Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

- 10:50 - 11:50 am
- Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building Atrium; 707 S Mathews Ave, Urbana
Social Research Methods Symposium
- Exhibition
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Saurabh Anand
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 8, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 3057 Lincoln Hall; 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL
Florian Znaniecki Lecture: Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
- Lecture
- 4:00 - 6:00 pm
- Spurlock Museum Atrium
HRI Prizes for Research Ceremony & Year-End Reception

Gather with us in community to toast this year's HRI research prize recipients and to mark the close of another academic year.
- Reception/Open House

Friday, May 9, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Dr. Kevin Corbett (University of San Diego): "“Ubiquitination pathways in bacterial innate immunity”
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, May 12, 2025

- 10:00 am
- 161 Noyes Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Anaira Roman Santiago, "Understanding Molecular Level Interactions and Design of Selective Electrochemical Processes for Wastewater Treatment"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
T.S. Piper Award for Outstanding Inorganic PhD Thesis
- Ceremony/Service
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Postdoc Seminar: Sergei Korshunov/Imlay Lab and Sanjay Rohaun/Imlay Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 15, 2025

- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
Walter Klemperer Award for Outstanding Materials PhD thesis
- Ceremony/Service

Sunday, May 18, 2025

- 9:30 - 11:00 am
- Krannert in Tryon Festival Theatre
ChBE 2025 Spring Convocation Ceremony
- Ceremony/Service
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
- Illini Union - room ABC
ChBE 2025 Spring Convocation Reception
- Reception/Open House

Thursday, May 29, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- 171 Roger Adams Lab
Casey Olen, UIUC, Final Defense, "Title TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 30, 2025

- 3:30 pm
- 1002 Lincoln Hall
Joenisse Rosado-Rosa, Final Defense, UIUC, "Title TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, June 5, 2025

- 11:00 am
- 1024 Chemistry Annex
Joe Forzano, UIUC, Final Defense, "Title TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:30 pm
- 307 Gregory Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, James Griebler, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, June 12, 2025

- 1:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Rachel Gaines "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

- 10:00 am 1:00 pm
- 116 RAL
FINAL DEFENSE, Riccardo Candeago, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, August 28, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Tenure Seminar: Prof. Angad Mehta, UIUC, "Synthetic Biology for Evolutionary Studies and Human Health"
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, October 4, 2025

- 11:00 am - 3:30 pm
- Multiple locations
Humanities Open House

Join us on Saturday, October 4, 2025, when we’ll be highlighting the best of the humanities on our campus, including academic departments, student groups, research, resources, and alumni stories.
- Reception/Open House

Saturday, November 1, 2025

- 8:00 am
- Allerton Park, Monticello, IL
37th Annual Beak-Pines Organic Area Allerton Conference
- Conference/Workshop

Monday, November 10, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Jeffery W. Kelly, Scripps Research Institute, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium