Thursday, March 30, 2023

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Seminar of Special Interest: Professor Jeff Martell, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Enzyme-Mimicking Catalysts for Chemical Biology and Sustainable Synthesis"

  • Lecture

Friday, March 31, 2023

• • 10:00 am
    
  • 612 Institute for Genomic Biology

  Raymond Sarksian, Final Defense, UIUC, "Stereochemical Control in Lanthipeptide Biosynthesis"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 1:00 - 2:30 pm
    
  • 1080 (Lucy Ellis Lounge) Foreign Languages Building (707 S Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801)

  CEAPS Speaker | Robert Hellyer "Book talk on Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America’s Tea Cups"

  • Lecture

Monday, April 3, 2023

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • RAL 116

  CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Kameron Medine, "P(V) Methods for the Generation of Stereogenic Phosphorus in Bioactive Molecules"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Beckman Institute Auditorium

  Deploying Bioanalytical Platforms to Probe Inflammation & Immunity

  Professor Shana Kelley, inaugural president of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago will present "Deploying Bioanalytical Platforms to Probe Inflammation & Immunity" in the Beckman Institute Auditorium. Reception to follow.

  • Lecture

Tuesday, April 4, 2023

• 

  • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
    
  • 306 Coble Hall (801 South Wright Street Champaign, IL 61820)

  Self-Care and Sustainability for Area Studies and Interdisciplinary Scholars and Students

  • Lecture

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

• 

  • 3:00 - 4:00 pm
    
  • 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)

  Graduate Student Discussion: "Self-Care in the Classroom" led by Dr. Courtney Dorroll

  • Lecture

Thursday, April 6, 2023

• • 1:00 pm
    
  • 171 Roger Adams Lab

  Jesse Lee Panger, UIUC, Final Defense, "Enantioselective Alkene Difunctionalization Enabled by Organochalcogen Catalysis"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 7, 2023

• 

  • 1:00 - 2:30 pm
    
  • 306 Coble Hall

  CEAPS Speaker | Akira Shimizu - "Grapes that Connected Peasants to the Shogun: A New Perspective on Early-Modern Japanese Society through Regional Brand Food."

  • Lecture

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • RAL 116

  CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Hongxiang Li, "Recent Advances in Chemoenzymatic Synthesis"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 7:00 - 9:00 pm
    
  • Spurlock Museum Knight Auditorium (600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801)

  AsiaLENS - “Far East Deep South” (Film Screening & Discussion w/ Filmmaker Baldwin Chiu)

  • Film Screening

Thursday, April 13, 2023

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • RAL 116

  CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Alfons Pineda-Knauseder, Title TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 14, 2023

• 

  • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
    

  When Did East Asians Become Yellow?

  • Lecture

Saturday, April 15, 2023

• 

  • 10:00 - 10:30 am
    
  • Champaign Public Library, Nate & Lillie Story Room (200 W. Green St., Champaign, IL 61820)

  East Asian Story Time: “Drawn together”

  • Community Service

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

• • 8:30 am
    
  • CLSL-B 124

  Emily Mumford, Final Defense, UIUC, "Organoselenium Redox-Catalyzed Alkene syn-Difunctionalization"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 3:30 - 4:30 pm
    

  Alumni Lecture: Dr. Lance E. Rodewald, MD (’76, BS) - "Prevention and Control of Vaccine Preventable Diseases in China, from Polio to COVID-19"

  Virtual event. Find Zoom registration in event info. | Dr. Lance E. Rodewald, MD (BS, '76, UIUC Chemistry; MD, '79, SIU School of Medicine; MS, '85, UIUC Computer Science) is the 2023 recipient of the College of Liberal Arts & Science’s Alumni Humanitarian Award.

  • Lecture

Monday, April 24, 2023

• 

  • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
    
  • Coble Hall 306 (801 S. Wright St., Champaign)

  VASP Brown Bag - Weihua Li, "The Narrative Ethics of 'Historical Writings' in 'The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons'"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 27, 2023

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • Chem Annex 1024

  Professor Max Robb, California Institute of Technology, (M&O), "Molecular Design Strategies for Mechanochemically Active Polymers"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 28, 2023

• • 1:30 pm
    
  • B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

  Nicholas Angello, UIUC, Final Defense, "Closed-loop Iterative Molecular Discovery Engines"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, April 29, 2023

• 

  • 2:00 - 2:30 pm
    
  • Urbana Free Library (210 West Green Street Urbana, Illinois 61801)

  East Asian Story Time: “Suki's Kimono”

  • Community Service

Monday, May 1, 2023

• 

  • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
    
  • Coble Hall 306 (801 S. Wright St., Champaign)

  VASP Brown Bag - Tianjia Lu, "Painter and His Manuscripts: The Early Life of an 18th Century Chinese Painter Hua Yan'"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  R.C. Fuson Lecture, Professor Abigail G. Doyle, University of California, Los Angeles, "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 2, 2023

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  R.C. Fuson Lecture, Professor Abigail G. Doyle, University of California, Los Angeles, "title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 12, 2023

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • TBD

  Novartis Lecture: Novartis rep: Dr. Brian Hurley, "Development of small molecule rescuers of survival of motor neuron-2 (SMN2) for the treatment of Spinal Muscular Atrophy"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 pm
    
  • TBD

  Novartis Lecture: Professor Jason Chin, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge, UK, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium