College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering - Events of Interest

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

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

- 11:00 am
- 321 Gregory Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, Vanessa DaSilva, "Selective Deconstruction of Polyethylene to Propylene via Isomerization/Metathesis and 1-hexene Isomerization Studies"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 4, 2025

- 4:30 - 5:45 pm
- 217 Noyes Laboratory and 170 Noyes Laboratory (505 S Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801)
CHBE Scholarship Awards Ceremony & Reception
- Meeting

Monday, April 7, 2025

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
- 3:00 pm
- 164 Noyes Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Victoria Kriuchkovskaia, "HYDROGEL PLATFORM TO INVESTIGATE PROGRESSION OF DRUG-RESISTANT GLIOBLASTOMA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
R.C. Fuson Lecture: Professor David Nagib, Ohio State University, "Harnessing Carbene Polarity: Unconventional Carbonyl Reactivity"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

- 1:00 - 2:00 pm
- NCSA 1030
Extracting Mechanisms of Cell Cross Talk in Pancreatic Cancer Using Big Data

This event is part of the Cancer Center at Illinois Seminar Series. Coffee and light snacks will be provided.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- 1027 Lincoln Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, Dongyu Fan, "3D Tracking of Solute Dynamics in Heterogeneous Polymer Networks"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 11, 2025

- 10:00 am
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Nayeong Kim, "INTEGRATION OF REDOX-ELECTROSORPTION AND REDOX-ELECTRODIALYSIS FOR WATER REMEDIATION, WASTE VALORIZATION, AND ORGANIC SPECIES SEPARATIONS""
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 14, 2025

- 7:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
2025 John C. Bailar, Jr. Lecture: Professor James Mayer, Yale University, TBD
- 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, TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 2, 2025

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B-102
2025 Flygare Memorial Lecture: Professor Emily A. Carter, Princeton University, "Carbon Dioxide Conversion for a Sustainable Future: Research and Policy"
- Lecture

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

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

- All Day
Instruction Ends
- Other

Thursday, May 8, 2025

- All Day
Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect
- Other

Friday, May 9, 2025

- All Day
Final Exams Begin
- Other

Monday, May 12, 2025

- 10:00 am
- 612 Institute for Genomic Biology
FINAL DEFENSE, Anaira Roman Santiago, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

- 1:00 - 2:00 pm
- NCSA 1030
Obesity and Cancer: Creating Niches for Metastasis

This event is part of the Cancer Center at Illinois Seminar Series. Coffee and light snacks will be provided.
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, May 17, 2025

- 8:30 am
Commencement
- 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

Monday, May 19, 2025

- All Day
First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 1
- Other

Thursday, June 5, 2025

- 1:30 pm
- 307 Gregory Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, James Griebler, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, June 12, 2025

- 1:00 pm
- 307 Gregory Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, Rachel Gaines "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, June 16, 2025

- All Day
First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 2
- Other

Monday, August 25, 2025

- All Day
First Day of Instruction, Fall Semester
- Other

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

Saturday, November 22, 2025

- 8:30 am
Fall break begins
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, December 1, 2025

- All Day
Instruction resumes
- Other

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

- All Day
Last Day of Instruction, Fall Semester
- Other

Thursday, December 11, 2025

- All Day
Reading Day - IT No Change Period in effect
- Other

Friday, December 12, 2025

- 8:30 am
Final Exams Begin
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, December 22, 2025

- All Day
First Day of Instruction, Winter Session
- Ceremony/Service

Friday, January 16, 2026

- 8:30 am
Final Exams Begin
- Ceremony/Service

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

- All Day
First Day of Instruction, Spring Semester
- Other

Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

The Grainger College of Engineering

School of Chemical Sciences