Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Events of Interest

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

- All Day
Graduate Student Appreciation Week
Celebrate the contributions of over 16,000 grad students, each one changing the world!
- Festival/Celebration

Thursday, October 24, 2019

- All Day
Graduate Student Appreciation Week
Celebrate the contributions of over 16,000 grad students, each one changing the world!
- Festival/Celebration
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory, reception follows in north RAL Atrium
Samuel W. Parr Lecture in Chemical Engineering, Prof. Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan, "Engineering Entropy in Colloidal Matter"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 25, 2019

- All Day
Graduate Student Appreciation Week
Celebrate the contributions of over 16,000 grad students, each one changing the world!
- Festival/Celebration

Saturday, October 26, 2019

- All Day
Graduate Student Appreciation Week
Celebrate the contributions of over 16,000 grad students, each one changing the world!
- Festival/Celebration

Monday, October 28, 2019

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Brian M. Hoffman, Northwestern University, "How Nature Fertilizes the Earth: The Mechanism of Nitrogen Fixation by Nitrogenase"
Reception immediately following in 'A' Atrium of Chemical Life Sciences Laboratory
- Lecture

Tuesday, October 29, 2019

- 4:00 pm
- 1092 Lincoln Hall
CHBE 565 Seminar, Professor Ravi Jagadeeshan, Monash University, "The Dynamics of Polymer Solutions at Finite Concentrations"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 31, 2019

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Roseanna Zia, Stanford University, '"Phase Mechanics" of Arrested Colloidal Gels: A New Paradigm for Non-equilibrium Phase Transitions in Soft Matter'
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 1, 2019

- 5:00 pm
- Ballroom, Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 S. Lincoln Ave., Urbana
Nelson J. Leonard Distinguished Lecture: Professor Zhenan Bao, Stanford University, "Skin Inspired Electronics Applications in Robotics and Medical Devices"
Reception immediately following in the Atrium of the Alice Campbell Alumni Center.
- Lecture

Thursday, November 7, 2019

- 2:00 - 4:00 pm
- Coble Hall (1st FL reception) 801 S Wright St
Café Coble | First Thursdays at the Graduate College
FREE coffee and treats. You're invited to bring a friend, stop by and take a break!
- Social/Informal Event

Monday, November 11, 2019

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
R. C. Fuson Lecture: Professor Emily Balskus, Harvard University, "Deciphering the Human Microbiota with Chemistry"
Reception immediately following lecture in 'A' Atrium of Chemical Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
R. C. Fuson Lecture: Professor Emily Balskus, Harvard University, "Chemical Discovery in the Microbial World"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 21, 2019

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Nitash Balsara, University of California, Berkeley, "Negative Diffusion Coefficients in Polymer Electrolytes for Lithium Batteries"
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, November 23, 2019

- All Day
Thanksgiving Break Begins
- Other

Monday, December 2, 2019

- All Day
Instruction resumes
- Other

Thursday, December 5, 2019

- 2:00 - 4:00 pm
- Coble Hall (1st FL reception) 801 S Wright St
Café Coble | First Thursdays at the Graduate College
FREE coffee and treats. You're invited to bring a friend, stop by and take a break!
- Social/Informal Event
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Ralph Colby, Penn State University, "Flow-Induced Crystallization of Engineering Thermoplastics"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Jim Pfaendtner, University of Washington, "Structure-function Relationships at the Bio/Nano Interface"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 11, 2019

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

Thursday, December 12, 2019

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

Saturday, December 21, 2019

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
Winter 2019 Convocation
The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering will hold a winter convocation ceremony at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 21, 2019, in Room 116 of Roger Adams Laboratory, 600 South Mathews Ave., Urbana. More information about registration and the convocation speaker will be shared here when it becomes available.
- Ceremony/Service

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

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

Saturday, March 14, 2020

- 1:00 pm
Spring Vacation Begins
- Other

Monday, March 23, 2020

- All Day
Instruction resumes
- Other

Friday, April 3, 2020

- 12:00 - 6:00 pm
- CLSL A-Atrium and B102 CLSL Auditorium
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Undergraduate Research Symposium and Awards Ceremony
- Other

Friday, May 1, 2020

- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
Flygare Memorial Lecture: Professor Naomi Halas, Rice University, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, May 4, 2020

- 4:00 pm
- Ballroom, Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 S. Lincoln Ave., Urbana
Nelson J. Leonard Lecture, Professor Sir J. Fraser Stoddart, Northwestern University
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

- All Day
Instruction Ends
- Other

Thursday, May 7, 2020

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

Friday, May 8, 2020

- All Day
Final Exams Begin
- Other

Saturday, May 16, 2020

- All Day
- Memorial Stadium
Commencement
- Other

Monday, May 18, 2020

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

Monday, June 15, 2020

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