Seminars

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

• • 3:30 pm
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Emerging Leaders Seminar: Dr. Karen Mulfort, Argonne National Laboratory, "Directional Photoinduced Charge Transfer and Accumulation Using Copper Photosensitizers"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

• • 1:30 pm
  • English Building 160

  FINAL DEFENSE: Nafisa Ibrahim "Systematic Study of Redox-Active Polymers for Energy Storage: Exploring Structural Modulation, Electrolyte Interactions and Programmable Degradation" Advisor: Joaquin Rodriguez-Lopez

  • Ceremony/Service

Thursday, March 13, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Mark Swihart, University at Buffalo, "A Non-equilibrium Flame Aerosol Process to Create High-entropy Nanomaterials" (co-hosts: Hong Yang, Paul Kenis)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 31, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • 117 RAL

  FINAL DEFENSE, Jeff Xu, , "Workflows and automated platforms for nanocrystal synthesis, purification, and characterization"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 6:00   8:00 p.m.
  • Richmond Family Gallery in the Alice Campbell Alumni Center located at 601 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801.

  CHBE 121 Poster Session

  Please join students and faculty at the annual ChBE 121 Poster Session. This event will take place from 6-8 p.m. at the Richmond Family Gallery in the Alice Campbell Alumni Center. Students in small teams review and prepare a poster describing an Industrial Safety Incident. The posters include details such as an event timeline and immediate and long-term impacts.

  • Informational

Thursday, April 3, 2025

• • 3:30 pm
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Distinguished Inorganic Lecture: Professor Franc Meyer, University of Göttingen, "Inspired by Nitrogenase: Dihydride Complexes for the H2-Releasing Reductive Activation of Challenging Substrates"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 4, 2025

• • All Day
  • Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801 AND Noyes Laboratory, 505 S Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801

  CHBE/OXE UG Research Symposium and Scholarship Awards Ceremony

  • Meeting

Monday, April 7, 2025

• • 9:00 am
  • 117 RAL

  FINAL DEFENSE, Dejuante Walker, "Modeling Transport and Dynamics in Redox Active Polymer Solutions for Flow Battery Applications"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. James Moon, University of Michigan, "Engineering Strategies to Modulate the Immune System" (host: Joon Kong)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 14, 2025

• • 7:15 pm
  • B102 CLSL

  2025 John C. Bailar, Jr. Lecture: Professor James Mayer, Yale University, "Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reactions of Molecules and Materials: PCET stoichiometry, thermochemistry, and kinetics for molecules and materials: from slow to ultrafast"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Sijin Li, Cornell University, "An Integrated Synthetic Biology Pipeline to Understand and Harness Plant Specialized Metabolism" (host: Huimin Zhao)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  2025 John C. Bailar, Jr. Lecture: Professor James Mayer, Yale University, "Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reactions of Molecules and Materials; Re-examining Linear Free Energy Relationships for molecules and materials: complexities and opportunities"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

• • 3:30 pm
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Emerging Leaders Seminar: Professor Xavier Roy, Columbia University, "Quantum complexity in simple materials"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

• • 3:30 pm
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Professor Ambika Bhagi-Damodaran, University of Minnesota, (TBD) (I)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 1, 2025

• • 3:30 pm
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Distinguished Inorganic Lecture: Professor Jonas Peter, California Institute of Technology, (TBD) (I)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

• • 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

  Professor Alexandra Velian, University of Washington, (TBD) (I)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

• • 3:30 pm
  • Chem Annex 1024

  T.S. Piper Award for Outstanding Inorganic PhD Thesis

  • Ceremony/Service

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 Spring 2025 Convocation Reception

  • Reception/Open House