Morrill Hall Display Calendar

Friday, October 17, 2025

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  EEB Colloquium: Tandy Warnow, EEB Affiliate, “TIPP3: a new method for abundance profiling of microbiomes”

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  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

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

• 

  Entomology Colloquium - Marc Milne, Professor, University of Indianapolis - "How do spider assemblages respond to disturbance and evolve over space and time?"

  11:00 am

  B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  "Network Neuroscience: Linking Structure and Function," by Olaf Sporns, PhD, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University

  4:00 pm

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

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  PEEC Affiliation Seminar- Dr. Jonathan Henn, NRES, "Grassland restoration and management under environmental change"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 23, 2025

• 

  MIP Seminar Student Seminar: Meijin Pan "MEF2C Haploinsufficiency and Neuronal Hyperactivity in 5q 14.3 Microdeletion Syndrome" (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

Friday, October 24, 2025

• 

  EEB Colloquium: Becky Fuller and Julian Catchen, EEB, "Coffee Hour"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. John Calarco (University of Toronto) - "Small but mighty: using a tiny worm to shed light on microexon splicing"

  12:00 pm

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 27, 2025

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  Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Neethu Babu / Freeman Lab

  12:00 pm

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

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  Entomology Colloquium - Derek McFarland, Grad Student, PEEC, UIUC - "Tick-borne disease in a dynamic landscape: Does exposure risk change over time?"

  11:00 am

  B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  NSP DIRECTOR'S SEMINAR: "Breath, space and memory: How nasal respiration shaped the evolution of hippocampal function." by Lucia F. Jacobs, Professor Emerita, Department of Psychology and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley

  4:00 pm

  Beckman Institute 1025 - Auditorium

  • 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
• 

  PEEC Seminar (Virtual) - Dr. Denise Devotta, Moleaer, "Career Options Outside of Academia and the Federal Government for PEEC Students"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 30, 2025

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  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

Friday, October 31, 2025

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  EEB Colloquium: Al Roca, Animal Sciences, "Most Likely Elephants"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 3, 2025

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  Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Jenny Cheng / Van Bortle Lab

  12:00 pm

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Afifa Iqbal / Sokac Lab

  12:30 pm

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

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  Entomology Colloquium - ESA Practice Talks

  11:00 am

  B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  2025 SfN Preview Poster Night and Reception

  4:00 pm

  Beckman Institute ATRIUM

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

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  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
• 

  Akshita Gopal (Wu Lab) - "A deep mutational scanning-based high-throughput platform for epitope masking and immunofocused vaccine antigen design."

  4:00 pm

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  PEEC Affiliation Seminar - Dr. Ya Min, Plant Biology (UIUC), "Patterning the meristem: development and evolution of the floral ground plan"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  Terry Gao (Huang Lab) - "TBA"

  4:30 pm

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 6, 2025

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  MIP Seminar: Dr. Tanveer Singh (Chung Lab), UIUC, "TBA"

  11:00 am

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

  Tanveer Singh, Ph.D.

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 7, 2025

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  EEB Colloquium: Gio Madrigal, EEB, "Fish Genomics"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

• 

  Entomology Colloquium - NO SEMINAR - ESA Meeting - Portland, OR

  All Day

  N/A

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  "Maladaptive reorganization of the human brain in stroke," by Yuan Yang, Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Biomedical & Translational Sciences (CI MED), Clinical Imaging (Carle Health), Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences (Northwestern Medicine), Beckman Institute, and Neuroscience Program

  4:00 pm

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

• 

  Kade Fellow: Dipta Das (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"

  4:00 pm

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  PEEC Seminar - Dr. Scott Hotaling, Utah State University, "Climate Change in High Mountains of the Western USA: Using Long-Term Data to Understand the Future"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  'Fola Adesanya (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"

  4:30 pm

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 13, 2025

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  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

Friday, November 14, 2025

• 

  EEB Colloquium: Nina Shearrill, EEB, "Defense"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  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
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  Plant Biology Colloquium - Wendy Yang, Professor, SIB, UIUC

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Plant Sciences Laboratory (PSL) Room 1103

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 17, 2025

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  Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Zengmin Cong / K. Prasanth Lab

  12:00 pm

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

• 

  ENT Faculty-Grad Student Discussion (for Entomology Dept. Faculty and Students only please) - NO speaker Colloquium

  All Day

  B102 CLSL

  • Meeting
• 

  NO SEMINAR: 2025 SfN Annual Conference in San Diego

  4:00 pm

  Beckman Institute ATRIUM

  • 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
• 

  Dabich Fellow: Xinyi Dai (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"

  4:00 pm

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  PEEC Affiliation Seminar - Dr. Wei Qin, Dept. of Microbiology (MCB), "Adapting to a Changing World: Ecophysiological Insights into Nitrifying Microorganisms and their Impact on the Future Nitrogen Cycle""

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  Emma Thames (Stadtmueller Lab) - "TBA"

  4:30 pm

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 20, 2025

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

  11:00 am

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 21, 2025

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  EEB Colloquium: Gerald Wilson, Technology Entrepreneur Center, "Enterprise Works"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, November 22, 2025

• 

  Fall break begins

  8:30 am

  • Ceremony/Service

Tuesday, November 25, 2025

• 

  NO SEMINAR: UIUC Thanksgiving Break

  4:00 pm

  Beckman Institute ATRIUM

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, December 1, 2025

• 

  Instruction resumes

  All Day

  • Other
• 

  Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Purnam Ghosh / Belmont Lab

  12:00 pm

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

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  Entomology Colloquium - Debajit Saha, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University

  11:00 am

  B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  "Molecular Determinants of Prion Disease; A Guide to Therapeutic Development?" by James A. Mastrianni, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurology, Director, Center for Comprehensive Care and Research on Memory Disorders, Director, Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry Program, Helen McLoraine Neuroscientist of the Brain Research Foundation, The University of Chicago

  4:00 pm

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

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  Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Humayra Oishi / S. Prasanth Lab

  12:00 pm

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  Evan Hebner (Leckband) - "TBA"

  4:00 pm

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  PEEC Seminar - Dr. Raffaela Lesch, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Urbanization, "Domestication, and the Neural Crest: A Shared Developmental Pathway?"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  Owen Ouyang (Wu Lab) - 'TBA"

  4:30 pm

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, December 5, 2025

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  EEB Colloquium: Zach Heiple, UCSD, "Evolution of Morphology in Deepsea Fishes"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, December 8, 2025

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  Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Faizan Rashid / Sokac Lab

  12:00 pm

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

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  Entomology Colloquium - Esther Ngumbi, Assistant Professor, Entomology, UIUC

  11:00 am

  B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

• 

  Last Day of Instruction, Fall Semester

  All Day

  • Other
• 

  Jessica Derham - (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"

  4:00 pm

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  PEEC Seminar - Dr. Kathleen Lynch, Ramapo College of New Jersey, "Uniting Tinbergen’s four questions to understand avian brood parasitism"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  Rebecca Tang (Huang Lab) - "TBA"

  4:30 pm

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, December 11, 2025

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  Reading Day - IT No Change Period in effect

  All Day

  • Other

Friday, December 12, 2025

• 

  Final Exams Begin

  8:30 am

  • Ceremony/Service

Monday, December 15, 2025

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  Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Tejus Sreelal / Li Lab

  12:00 pm

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

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  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

Monday, December 22, 2025

• 

  First Day of Instruction, Winter Session

  All Day

  • Ceremony/Service

Friday, January 16, 2026

• 

  Final Exams Begin

  8:30 am

  • Ceremony/Service

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

• 

  First Day of Instruction, Spring Semester

  All Day

  • Other

Wednesday, January 21, 2026

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  PEEC Exit Seminar - Benjamin Neal, PEEC, "Genetic Strategies for Improving Livestock Health: Insights from Holstein Dairy Cattle and Commercial Pig Breeds"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, January 23, 2026

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  EEB Colloquium: Becky Fuller and Julian Catchen, EEB, "Mentoring Sessions"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

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  PEEC Affiliation Seminar - Dr. Valeria Trivellone, INHS, "The Host–Vector–Phytoplasma triangle: Eco-Evolutionary insights into emerging plant diseases"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, January 30, 2026

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  EEB Colloquium: Julia Jehn, EEB, "Plant Defenses"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 4, 2026

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  PEEC Affiliation Seminar - Dr. Tigga Kingston, EEB, "Why Do People Hunt Bats?"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 6, 2026

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  EEB Colloquium: Becky Fuller, Julian Catchen, and Grads, EEB, "Graduate Recruiting"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • 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
• 

  PEEC Seminar - Dr. Jessie Tanner, University of Tennessee Knoxville, "Complex Choice Environments Level the Playing Field for Unattractive Treefrog Males"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 13, 2026

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  EEB Colloquium: Bell Lab members, EEB, "Stickleback Behavior"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

• 

  PEEC Seminar - Dr. Heather Marlow, University of Chicago, TBD

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 20, 2026

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  EEB Colloquium: Tour of Champions, Meaghan Clark, "Rattlesnake conservation"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

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  PEEC Seminar - Dr. Anne Chambers, Northern Arizona University, "The evolutionary potential of California’s wild populations to withstand environmental change"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 27, 2026

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  EEB Colloquium: Katie Karl and Amanda Martinez, "Conservation Genomics of Herps"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

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  PEEC Seminar - Dr. Windsor Aguirre, DePaul University, "Fish Forms and Backbones: Microevolutionary Integration of Body Shape and Vertebral Structure in Adaptation and Disease"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

• 

  PEEC Seminar (AM Session, Virtual) - Dr. Frederick Legendre, MNHN-Paris

  9:00 - 10:00 am

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  PEEC Exit Seminar (PM Session, In-Person) - Devin Goodson, PEEC, "A Social Ecological Approach to Studying Urban Human-Bird Relationships"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 13, 2026

• 

  EEB Colloquium: EEB, "Coffee Hour"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, March 14, 2026

• 

  Spring Vacation Begins

  1:00 pm

  • Other

Monday, March 23, 2026

• 

  Instruction resumes

  7:00 am

  • Other

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

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  PEEC Seminar - Dr. Maria Rebolleda-Gómez, University of California Irvine, "Measuring Collective Functions in Microbial Communities"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 27, 2026

• 

  EEB Colloquium: Ed Newcomer, "Graduate Student Invited Speaker, Nonacademic career, Conservation Stings"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 1, 2026

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  PEEC Seminar - Dr. Agustin Fuentes, Princeton University, "Sex is bodies, behaviors & lives: the biological limits of the binary and the benefits of a spectrum approach"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • 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

Friday, April 10, 2026

• 

  EEB Colloquium: Michelle Villalobos, EEB, "Defense"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

• 

  PEEC Exit Seminar- Lauren Otolski, PEEC, TBD

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 17, 2026

• 

  EEB Colloquium: Anne Aka, EEB, UV Coloration and Vision in Fish

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

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
• 

  PEEC Exit Seminar - Facundo Fernandez-Duque, PEEC, "Mechanisms of Flexible Parental Care"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

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  PEEC Seminar - Dr. Amy Toth, Iowa State University, "Remote Control of Complex Social Behavior from Outside of the Brain: Lessons from Functional Genomics in Wasps"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 1, 2026

• 

  EEB Colloquium: Becky Fuller, EEB, "ASN Presidential Address Practice Talk"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

• 

  Instruction Ends

  All Day

  • Other
• 

  PEEC Exit Seminar - Roberto Cucalón Tamayo, PEEC, "Unveiling Cryptic Diversity in Freshwater Fishes with Uncertain Species Boundaries Using Genomics"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 7, 2026

• 

  Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect

  All Day

  • Other

Friday, May 8, 2026

• 

  Final Exams Begin

  All Day

  • Other

Saturday, May 16, 2026

• 

  Commencement

  8:30 am

  Memorial Stadium

  • Ceremony/Service

Monday, May 18, 2026

• 

  First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 1

  All Day

  • Other

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

• 

  First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 2

  All Day

  • Other