College of LAS: For Faculty & Staff

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

• • 3:30 pm
  • Chem Annex 1024

  "Low-valent Nickel and Palladium Compounds Relevant to Cross-coupling Catalysis", Sagnik Chakrabarti, 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
  • 1024 CHEM ANNEX

  "SERS Investigations of Additive Interactions at Cu Surfaces", Gavin Lindsay, Walter Klemperer Award for Outstanding Materials PhD thesis

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 3:30 pm
  • Chem Annex 1024

  "Toward the sustainable production of ammonia by integration of electrochemistry with light energy and nanostructured catalysts", Rachel Nixon, 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, UIUC, Final Defense, "Metabolomic Insights Into Pseudomonas aeruginosa Behavior, Secretome, and Biofilm Development Using Mass Spectrometry Imaging"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • RAL 116

  "Electrocatalysis in environmental management: Tuning the interface to achieve reaction selectivity", Professor Carlos M. Sánchez-Sánchez, Sorbonne Université

  • 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, "Novel Understandings of Yielding in Soft Materials Through Recovery Rheology Techniques""

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, June 12, 2025

• • 1:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  FINAL DEFENSE, Rachel Gaines "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

• • 9:00 am
  • 419 RAL (Rose Room)

  Final Defense: Arthur Zou (Leckband Lab) - "Epidermal growth factor receptor is an essential component in E-cadherin force-transduction complexes"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

• • 3:00 pm
  • 419 Roger Adams Lab

  Sungjong Lee, UIUC, Final Defense, "Title 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

Thursday, September 4, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Ryan Poling-Skutvik, University of Rhode Island (host: Simon Rogers)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 11, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Joao Soares, University of Alberta (host: Baron Peters)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 18, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Daeyeon Lee, University of Pennsylvania (host: Joon Kong)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Jeffrey Lopez, Northwestern University (host: Theresa Schoetz)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 2, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Karthik Shekhar, University of California, Berkeley (host: Diwakar Shukla)

  • 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

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Shailendra Bordawekar, AbbVie (host: Paul Kenis)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 9, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Erin Ratcliff, Georgia Institute of Technology (host: Ying Diao)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 23, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Nitash Balsara, University of California, Berkeley (host: Damien Guironnet)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Ting Xu, University of California, Berkeley (host: Deborah Leckband)

  • Seminar/Symposium

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

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

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

  • Seminar/Symposium