College of LAS: For Faculty & Staff

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Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Study Abroad in Prague Info Session

5:00 pm

Gregory Hall 311

Join us for an info session about HIST 354 Study Abroad in Prague.
- Informational

Thursday, October 16, 2025

MIP Seminar Student Seminar: Lucy Liu (Christian-Hinman Lab) "Investigating Seizure Susceptibility in an APP/PS1 Alzheimer's Disease Mouse Model using Repeated Low-Dose Kainic Acid Injection" & Gabe McKenna (Tsai Lab) "Characterizing the Mechanism and Neurodevelopmental Impacts of a de novo GRM7 Mutation"

11:00 am

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Johnny Bajko CHEM 575 Seminar "Expanding Proximity Proteomics: From nanometer-Scale Mapping to Multicellular Interfaces"

12:00 pm

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
- Seminar/Symposium
Natalie King CHEM 575 Seminar "Engineering Diazotrophs: Harnessing Bacteria for Sustainable Nitrogen Supply in Cereal Crops"

12:00 pm

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
- Seminar/Symposium
CBI-TG Seminar: Petra Levin, Washington University St. Louis -- Trainee Host: Rodrigo Arana Garrido/Mera Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
Story and Place | Nadine Naber Lecture

7:30 pm

Illini Union, Room 210

Nadine Naber (Gender and Women’s Studies, Global Asian Studies, University of Illinois Chicago) will present the lecture “Radical Mothering as Prison Abolition Pedagogy in Chicago” as part of the Story & Place event series.
- Lecture

Friday, October 17, 2025

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Ian Wilson (The Scripps Research Institute) - "From antibodies to small molecules: structure-based design of novel therapeutic candidates to influenza virus"

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Literature Seminar, TBD, Nina Wang

4:00 pm

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Ariel Furst, MIT (host: Paul Kenis)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Inorganic Seminar, "Peptide Frameworks as Microcosms of Proteins", Professor Andy Nguyen, University of Illinois Chicago

3:30 pm

1024 CHEM ANNEX
- Seminar/Symposium
The Ongoing Hunt for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries

3:45 - 4:45 pm

134 Astronomy Building
- Seminar/Symposium
The Farm Crisis and Fallout: The Rural Midwest in the 1980s and After

4:30 - 6:30 pm

Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL

Join Spurlock for a lecture by Professor Pamela Riney-Kehrberg titled "The Farm Crisis and Fallout: The Rural Midwest in the 1980s and After."
- Lecture
Between Amsterdam and the Antilles: Diaspora and Community in Colonial Curaçao

5:00 pm

Lucy Ellis Lounge (LCLB 1080)

This talk by Dr. Hilit Surowitz-Israel explores Curaçao's pivotal role at the height of its influence by examining the production and circulation of religious material culture, focusing on the significance of "the gift" within Sephardic communities across the Americas.
- Lecture
M.Eng. in Chemical Engineering Leadership Informational Webinar

7:00 pm
- Webinar

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

HRI Graduate Fellowship Brownbag

12:00 pm

Levis Faculty Center 108

Join this collaborative session with HRI and the Writers Workshop for tips and guidance on preparing your HRI Graduate Fellowship application.
- Informational
Prof. Yang Yang, UW Madison, "Bridging Quantum and Classical: An Efficient Framework for Capturing Zero-Point Effects in Hydrogen-Related Chemistry"

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 23, 2025

MIP Seminar Student Seminar: Meijin Pan (Tsai Lab) & Dhanya Pradeep (Erik Nelson Lab) "Evaluation of Selective FXR Modulation and Gut Microbiome Intervention in Breast Cancer Pathophysiology"

11:00 am

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Arthur Charles-Orszag, University of California - Davis -- "Cellular, molecular mechanisms and evolution of chromosome segregation in the thermoacidophilic archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius"

4:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
Talking about Farm Aid with X musician John Doe

4:30 pm

Spurlock Auditorium

Join John Doe, co-founder of the legendary band X, for a conversation about the band’s appearance at the inaugural Farm Aid concert in Champaign in 1985.
- Lecture
Weaving Indigenous Futures Across Academia, Independent Research, and Visual Art

4:30 pm

1080 Lucy Ellis Lounge - Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building
- Lecture
"The Realities of a Practicing Data Scientist", Alix Schmidt, Sr Data Scientist Dow Chemical, Core R&D Information Research

5:00 - 6:00 pm

163 Noyes Lab
- Informational
Farm Aid Event: John Doe Concert at Rosebowl

8:00 pm

Rosebowl Tavern

Join us for a special evening with John Doe, founding member of the iconic punk band X, as he takes the stage for an intimate solo performance at The Rose Bowl Tavern in Urbana, IL.
- Performance

Friday, October 24, 2025

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. John Calarco (University of Toronto) - "TBA"

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
"Charting Cellular Landscapes in Biomedical Research with Multimodal Imaging Mass Spectrometry", Professor Jeff Spraggins, Vanderbilt University

4:00 pm

RAL116
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 27, 2025

Professor Amy Weeks, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "New Enzyme Chemistry to Decipher Post-translational Modification Function"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Ting Xu, University of California, Berkeley (host: Deborah Leckband) "Macromolecules: Friend or Foe?"

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Jian Feng / State University of New York at Buffalo

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Colloquia: Dr. Michael Light

12:00 pm

3057 Lincoln Hall; 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL
- Lecture
CHEM 545 Practice Seminars

2:00 - 3:00 pm 3:00 pm

Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 30, 2025

MIP Endowed C. Ladd Prosser Lecture: Dr. Roger Cone, University of Michigan, "Understanding Energy Homeostasis, and its Impact on Obesity Pharmacotherapy"

11:00 am

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Professor, University of Michigan, Life Sciences Institute
- Seminar/Symposium
Kinshuk Malik CHEM 575 Seminar

12:00 pm

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
- Seminar/Symposium
Rowan Glover CHEM 575 Seminar

12:00 pm

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Brett Loman, Animal Sciences Department/UIUC -- "Improving Stress Resilience Through Diet-Microbiota Interactions: Insights into Gastrointestinal Motility"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
REEEC New Directions Lecture: Choi Chatterjee and Karen Petrone, "Russia in World History: Updating the Long Telegram"

4:00 pm

306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
- Lecture
History Film Night: Oliver Stone's JFK

7:00 - 11:00 pm

213 Gregory Hall

Join the Department of History and Phi Alpha Theta for a screening of the film JFK (Oliver Stone, 1991) followed by a discussion.
- Film Screening

Friday, October 31, 2025

FINAL DEFENSE: Chloe Litts "Non-Traditional Catalysis by Plasmonic Nanostructures" Advisor: Prashant Jain

2:00 pm

Roger Adams Lab 419
- Seminar/Symposium
Literature Seminar, TBD, Ella Pickell

4:00 pm

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium
Literature Seminar, TBD, Levi Dumpert

4:00 pm

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, November 1, 2025

37th Annual Beak-Pines Organic Area Allerton Conference

8:00 am

Allerton Park, Monticello, IL
- Conference/Workshop
Spurlock Museum Book Club: A Thousand Acres

4:00 - 5:00 pm

The Literary, 122 N Neil St, Champaign, IL 61820
- Meeting

Monday, November 3, 2025

BMS talk w/BMS rep (for grad students & postdocs only), Dr. Deborah S. Mortensen, Bristol Myers Squibb, "Ligand Directed Degradation and Discovery of BMS-986458, a Potential First-in-Class BCL6 Degrader"

11:35 am - 12:30 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Bristol Myers Squibb Lecture, Professor Guangbin Dong, University of Chicago, "Simple-Looking but Non-Obvious Transformations"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Faculty Book Talk: Erik McDuffie

4:00 pm

Levis Faculty Center 210

This talk appreciates the importance of Garveyism and the Midwest for understanding the contours, genealogies, and complexities of twentieth-century Black transnational resistance and for imagining that another world is possible in this moment of global crisis.
- Other

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Inorganic Literature Seminar, TBD, Akra Ghosh

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Inorganic Literature Seminar, TBD, Husna Azhakath Valappil

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Student Seminar: Angie Caserio/Metcalf Lab and Simrandeep Singh/Imlay Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Andrew Dillin / University of California Berkley

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Prof. Peng Chen, Cornell University, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 6, 2025

Materials Literature Seminar, TBD, Elizabeth Vrana

3:30 am

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
MIP Seminar: Dr. Tanveer Singh (Chung Lab), UIUC, "TBA"

11:00 am

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Tanveer Singh, Ph.D.
- Seminar/Symposium
Mahima Rana CHEM 575 Seminar

12:00 pm

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
- Seminar/Symposium
Nicholas Korosec CHEM 575 Seminar

12:00 pm

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Adrienne Antonson, Animal Sciences Department/UIUC -- "TBA"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 7, 2025

REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Fethi Keles, "Unsettled and Resettled: Experiences of Bosnian Diaspora in the United States."

12:00 pm

306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
- Lecture
"Using Operando NMR to Probe Lithium Metal Batteries", Professor Lauren Marbella, Columbia University in the City of New York

4:00 pm

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 10, 2025

Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Jeffery W. Kelly, Scripps Research Institute, "The Scientific Origins of Drugs that Slow Neurodegeneration and the Pharmacological Future of Treating Dementias"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Justin Notestein, Northwestern University, (co-hosts: Chris Rao, Paul Kenis)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Inorganic Seminar, "Heavy Elements in Nature: From Waste Management to Precision Medicine", Professor Rebecca Abergel, University of California, Berkeley

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Student Seminar: Saika Hossain/Imlay Lab and Ezza Khan/Mera Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Ceremony/Service

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Colloquia: Dr. Laurel Smith-Doerr

12:00 pm

3057 Lincoln Hall; 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL
- Lecture
TBD, Dr. Spencer Walse, Research Chemist, United States Department of Agriculture

12:00 pm

W109 Turner Hall
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 545 Practice Seminars

2:00 - 3:00 pm 3:00 pm

Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
Celebrate New Books in Medieval Studies by Mukhtar Ali, Mauro Nobili, and Gian Piero Persiani

5:00 - 7:00 pm

Levis Faculty Center, 210

Join us for a festive reception to celebrate three new books published this fall! The authors will each offer brief remarks and there will be an informal Q&A about the research and writing process. All are welcome!
- Festival/Celebration

Thursday, November 13, 2025

MIP Seminar: Dr. Kendall Nettles, University of Florida, "Structure and function of steroid receptors revealed by chemical biology and machine learning approaches"

11:00 am

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Associate Professor, Department of Cancer Biology
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Jovan Kamcev, University of Michigan (host: Xiao Su)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Materials Literature Seminar, TBD, Julia Koldobskiy

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Materials Literature Seminar, TBD, Sonam Rani

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Justin Lessler, University of North Carolina -- "Will there be a warning for the next pandemic?"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 14, 2025

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Brenda Bass (University of Utah) - "Discriminationg self and nonself dsRNA during antiviral defense"

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: George Gasyna, "A Time for the Province: Palimpsests and Borders in Twentieth-Century Polish Literature""

12:00 pm

Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB)
- Lecture
Literature Seminar, TBD, Maxwell Andren

4:00 pm

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 17, 2025

C.S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Gregory C. Fu, California Institute of Technology, "Title: TBD"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Inorganic Literature Seminar, TBD, Cayden Jasek

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Inorganic Literature Seminar, TBD, Jon Haidet

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
C.S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Gregory C. Fu, California Institute of Technology: "Title: TBD"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Student Seminar: Michael Bochert/Golding Lab and Lindsey Grady/Hatoum-Aslan

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Ting Wang / Washington University

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Eliza Asani, UIUC, "Machine Learning for Thermodynamically-Consistent Equations of State"

2:00 - 2:30 pm

CLSL B-102
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Omkar Chaudhari, UIUC, "Plasmon–Hydron Resonance Leads to Quantum Friction and Electron Cooling"

2:30 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B-102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 20, 2025

MIP Seminar Student Seminar: Hongyu Zhao (Chung Lab) & Taylor McNeal (Raetzman Lab) "TBA"

11:00 am

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Aleksandra Vojvodic, University of Pennsylvania (host: Alex Mironenko)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Materials Literature Seminar, TBD, Faith Kern

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Materials Literature Seminar, TBD, Justine You

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Jacob Allen, Nutritional Sciences/UIUC -- "TBA"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, December 1, 2025

Professor Brett P. Fors, Cornell University, "Title: TBD"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Inorganic Literature Seminar, TBD, Adrienne Kanihan

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Inorganic Literature Seminar, TBD, Katy Knecht

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Jose Luis Llera Munoz CHEM 535 Seminar

4:00 pm

Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave, 116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Miko Miwa, UIUC, " Pushing the Limits of Liquid-State NMR with Dynamic Nuclear Polarization"

2:00 - 2:30 pm

CLSL B-102
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Matthew Too, UIUC, "Quantum Chemical Calculations on Quantum Processors"

2:30 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B-102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, December 4, 2025

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Mark Blenner, University of Delaware (host: Chris Rao)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Materials Literature Seminar, TBD, Chetan Prasad

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Materials Literature Seminar, TBD, Emma Robinson

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Helen Nguyen, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department/UIUC -- "TBA"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, December 5, 2025

HRI Campus Fellowship Applications Due

5:00 pm

TBD

Campus Fellowship applications due
- Other

Monday, December 8, 2025

Prof. Christina (Tina) K. Kim, Princeton University, "Molecular Recorders for Activity-Dependent Protein Tagging in the Brain"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Brandon DeKosky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (host: Huimin Zhao)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Inorganic Literature Seminar, TBD, Andrew Norris

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Lynda Steen CHEM 535 Seminar

4:00 pm

Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave, 116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Mock Interview Seminar, Dr. Matthew Boudreau, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, "Title:TBD"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, December 11, 2025

Materials Literature Seminar, TBD, Dilshan Kuttikanda Vidanelage

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Materials Literature Seminar, TBD, Trent Papenmeier

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: *ZOOM* Dr. Bas Van Steensel / Netherlands Cancer Institute

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, December 20, 2025

ChBE 2025 Winter Convocation

10:00 - 11:00 am

Lincoln Hall, 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801
- Ceremony/Service
ChBE 2025 Winter Convocation Reception

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Latzer Hall in the University of Illinois YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820
- Reception/Open House

Monday, January 26, 2026

Aldrich Lecture: Professor Ohyun Kwon, University of California, Los Angeles, "Title:TBD"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Microbiology Student Seminar: New Student Presentations

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Microbiology Student Seminars: Brooke Ebner/Slauch Lab and Jessica Hertig/Imlay Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 9, 2026

Professor Chi P. Ting, Brandeis University, "title: TBD"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Microbiology Student Seminar: Aniritha Ramalingam Balasubramanian/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Sierra Bedwell/Heath Lab & Whitaker Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Career Development / Dr. Bing Yang / Purdue University

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 16, 2026

Professor Junqi Li, Iowa State University, "Title: TBD"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Microbiology Student Seminar: Abigail Finn/Whitaker Lab and Yishue Jiang/Sirk Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 19, 2026

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Wenlin Zhang, Dartmouth College (host: Charles Sing)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Medical Humanities Lecture: Justin Garcia

7:30 pm

TBD

Medical Humanities lecture with Justin Garcia from the Kinsey Institute
- Lecture

Monday, February 23, 2026

Marvel & Voorhees Postdoc Symposium: Speakers TBD

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Microbiology Student Seminar: Courtney Hill/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Suhail Chhakara/Kuzminov Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Colloquia: Dr. Mary Blair-Loy

12:00 pm

3057 Lincoln Hall; 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL
- Lecture

Thursday, February 26, 2026

Lecture: Erin Brock Carlson

4:00 pm

TBD
- Lecture

Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Microbiology Student Seminar: Zachary Davis/Brooke Lab and Will Wightkin/Blanke Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

International Women’s Day Celebration

3:30 - 5:00 pm

Levis Faculty Center 300

International Women’s Day celebration with speakers from the campus and community.
- Other

Thursday, March 5, 2026

Amgen Lecture: Professor Virginia Cornish, Columbia University, "Title: TBD"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 6, 2026

24th Annual Women’s and Gender History Symposium
Recurring

All Day

TBD

Join us for the 24th annual Women's and Gender History Symposium. More details to come.
- Conference/Workshop

Saturday, March 7, 2026

24th Annual Women’s and Gender History Symposium
Recurring

All Day

TBD

Join us for the 24th annual Women's and Gender History Symposium. More details to come.
- Conference/Workshop

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Microbiology Student Seminar: Keegan Schoeller/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Gabriela Shipman/Brooke Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Prof. Randall Goldsmith, UW Madison, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 12, 2026

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Hee Jeung Oh, Penn State University (host: Charles Sing)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Fuson Student Talks: "Speakers TBD"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Prof. Jacob Olshansky, Amherst College, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Microbiology Student Seminar: Rodrigo Arana Garrido/Mera Lab and Gracious Donkor/Slauch Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 30, 2026

Faculty Book Talk: Anke Pinkert

4:00 pm

TBD

Story & Place event series: Anke Pinkert Book Talk
- Lecture

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Microbiology Student Seminar: Abagail Long/Mera Lab and Lance Pollitz/Hatoum-Aslan Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Ceremony/Service

Wednesday, April 1, 2026

TBD, Professor Teri W. Odom, Northwestern University

2:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 2, 2026

AbbVie Lecture: Professor Robert R. Knowles, Princeton University, "Title: TBD"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Microbiology Postdoc Seminar: Yumi Iwadate/Slauch Lab and Thomas Cowell/Whitaker Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Long Cai / Caltech

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Prof. Marissa Weichman, Princeton, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 10, 2026

ChBE/OXE Undergraduate Research Symposium

12:00 - 4:00 pm

Levis Faculty Center, Room 300
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE Scholarship Awards Ceremony & Reception

4:30 - 6:00 pm

Levis Faculty Center, Room 300
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, April 13, 2026

Organic Syntheses Lecture: Professor Michael Krische, University of Texas at Austin, "Title: TBD"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Inorganic Seminar, TBD, Professor Raúl Hernandez Sanchez, Rice University

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Postdoc Seminar: Caroline Oldstone-Jackson/Heath Lab and Changyi Zhang/Whitaker Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Inside Scoop | Rita Dove

12:00 pm

BNAACC

U.S. Poet Laureate (1993–95); Creative Writing, University of Virginia Cohosted with the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center.
- Informational
Prof. Andres Montoya Castillo, CU Boulder, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium
Public Reading | Rita Dove

7:30 pm

Alice Campbell Alumni Center
- Other

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Anne Carpenter / Broad Institute

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Colloquia: Dr. Lauren Rivera

12:00 pm

3057 Lincoln Hall; 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL
- Lecture
Prof. Tian Lan, U Penn, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 24, 2026

TBD, Professor Henry White, The University of Utah

4:00 pm

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, April 25, 2026

Department of History Awards Celebration

4:00 - 6:00 pm

314AB Illini Union

Join us for our annual awards ceremony celebrating the accomplishments of our students, faculty, and staff.
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, April 27, 2026

Inorganic Seminar, 2026 John C. Bailar, Jr. Lecture: TBD, Professor Christophe Copéret, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, TBD

5:00 pm

TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Inorganic Seminar, 2026 John C. Bailar, Jr. Speaker, TBD, Professor Christophe Copéret, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, TBD

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Colloquia: Dr. John Robinson III

12:00 pm

3057 Lincoln Hall; 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL
- Lecture
Prof. Tom Truskett, University of Michigan, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
- Seminar/Symposium
History Honors Colloquium

4:00 - 6:00 pm

Illini Union, Room TBD

Join us as our seniors present their honors theses.
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 30, 2026

Lilly Lecture: Professor Lutz Ackermann, University of Göttingen, "Title: TBD"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 1, 2026

TBD, Professor Robert Lazenby, Florida State University

4:00 pm

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, May 4, 2026

3M Lecture: Professor Brent S. Sumerlin, University of Florida, "Title: TBD"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 7, 2026

Florian Znaniecki Lecture: Dr. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

12:00 pm

3057 Lincoln Hall; 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL

Dr. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Sociology Duke University
- Lecture
Prizes for Research Ceremony and Year-End Reception

4:00 - 6:00 pm

TBD

Prizes for Research Ceremony and Reception
- Reception/Open House

Friday, May 8, 2026

GF Smith Lecture, TBD, Professor Joseph Wang, University of California San Diego

4:00 pm

RAL116
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Piper Inorganic Thesis Award, TBD

3:30 pm

1024 CHEM ANNEX
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 14, 2026

Klemperer Materials Thesis Award Seminar, TBD

3:30 pm

1024 CHEM ANNEX
- Ceremony/Service

Friday, May 15, 2026

TBD, Professor David Issadore, University of Pennsylvania

4:00 pm

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium