Seminars

Monday, November 10, 2025

Final Defense: Thompson, Gunnar - " Advancing Techniques for Engineered Tissue Models of the Bone Marrow"

1:00 - 1:50 pm

157 Noyes Lab
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Tuesday, November 11, 2025

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Justin Notestein, Northwestern University, (co-hosts: Chris Rao, Paul Kenis) "Selective Oxidations and Oxygenate Production over Nanostructured and Well-Defined Oxide Catalysts"

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

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- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 13, 2025

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Jovan Kamcev, University of Michigan (host: Xiao Su) "Controlling the Selectivity of Charged Polymer Membranes"

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Materials Literature Seminar, “Photocatalytic Degradation of Forever Chemicals”, Julia Koldobskiy

3:30 pm

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Materials Literature Seminar, "Soft by Nature, Smart by Design: Tuning the Properties of PEDOT:PSS- based Conductive Hydrogels for Future Bioelectronics", Sonam Rani

3:30 pm

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- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 14, 2025

Final Defense Jiankai Ge "Kinetic Modeling Frameworks for the Chemical Recycling of Polyolefins"

12:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Inorganic Literature Seminar, "Redox Flexibility in Bismuth Catalysis", Cayden Jasek

3:30 pm

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- Seminar/Symposium
Inorganic Literature Seminar, "Synthetic Approaches Toward High-Entropy Metallic Nanoparticles for Catalytic Applications", Jon Haidet

3:30 pm

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- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 20, 2025

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Aleksandra Vojvodic, University of Pennsylvania (host: Alex Mironenko)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
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Materials Literature Seminar, "Autonomously Reinforced Double Network Hydrogels: Making Strides Towards Artificial Tissues", Faith Kern

3:30 pm

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Materials Literature Seminar, "Probing Mobility Factors in Organic Semiconductors with Machine Learning Predictive Analysis", Justine You

3:30 pm

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Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Inorganic Literature Seminar, TBD, Adrienne Kanihan

3:30 pm

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Inorganic Literature Seminar, TBD, Katy Knecht

3:30 pm

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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

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Materials Literature Seminar, TBD, Emma Robinson

3:30 pm

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Tuesday, December 9, 2025

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Brandon DeKosky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (host: Huimin Zhao) "Scalable Approaches to Study and Engineer Immune Receptors"

2:00 pm

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

3:30 pm

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Thursday, December 11, 2025

Materials Literature Seminar, TBD, Dilshan Kuttikanda Vidanelage

3:30 pm

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Materials Literature Seminar, TBD, Trent Papenmeier

3:30 pm

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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

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

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

Monday, March 30, 2026

CHBE 121 Poster Session

6:00 pm 8:00 p.m.

Richmond Family Gallery in the Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801.
- 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

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

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

3:30 pm

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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

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Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Piper Inorganic Thesis Award, TBD

3:30 pm

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Thursday, May 14, 2026

Klemperer Materials Thesis Award Seminar, TBD

3:30 pm

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- Ceremony/Service

Sunday, May 17, 2026

CHBE 2026 Spring Convocation Ceremony

9:30 11:00 am

Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Tryon Festival Theatre, 500 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
- Ceremony/Service
ChBE 2026 Spring Convocation Reception

11:00 1:00 p.m.

Illini Union - room ABC, 1401 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801
- Reception/Open House