Advith's Calendar

Thursday, January 2, 2025

• • 1:00 - 4:00 pm
  • 1208 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL

  Snack & Study

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 2:00 - 4:00 pm
  • HMNTL 2003

  Final Exam: Pin-Chiao Huang

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, January 3, 2025

• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ Department Head Nancy Amato

  • Other
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Organic Chemistry Faculty Candidate: Dr. Alex Cusumano, University of California, Los Angeles, "Transition Metal-catalyzed Pericyclic and Photochemical Strategies for C–C Bond Construction"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, January 6, 2025

• • All Day

  Deadline to apply • U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) University Nuclear Leadership Program Scholarship

  • Informational
• • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Chemical Biology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Evert Njomen, Scripps Research, "Targeting the Undrugged Proteome with Small Molecules"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

• • 8:00 - 11:00 am
  • University Library

  Libraries closed Jan. 7 (8 a.m. to 11 a.m.)

  All campus libraries will be closed on Tuesday, Jan. 7, from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. for an all-employee event. Library digital resources will remain available during this closure and may be accessed through the Library Gateway (click the link above). Please arrange your study or research schedule accordingly.

  • Other
• • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Chemical Biology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Carly Schissel, University of California, Berkeley, "Strategies to Discover, Design, and Synthesize Unnatural Bioactive Peptides"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:30 - 7:30 pm
  • Descend 21 at the Hyatt Regency Orlando

  AE Reception at AIAA SciTech Orlando

  • Social/Informal Event

Wednesday, January 8, 2025

• • All Day

  Deadline to apply • U.S. Department of Energy Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI)

  • Informational

Thursday, January 9, 2025

• • 1:00 - 4:00 pm
  • 1208 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL

  Snack & Study

  • Social/Informal Event
• 

  • 2:00 - 4:00 pm
  • Main Library, Orange Room

  Winter Break Program: Board Games from Around the World

  • Social/Informal Event

Friday, January 10, 2025

• • 1:30 - 4:30 pm

  Communicating & Direct Work with Traumatized Children & Youth: An Introduction to Therapeutic Life Story Work

  • Professional Development
• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ Department Head Nancy Amato

  • Other

Monday, January 13, 2025

• • All Day

  Instructors back on campus

  • Other
• • All Day

  Spring tuition and fee charges first appear on student accounts

  • Other
• • 1:00 pm
  • 419 Roger Adams Lab

  FINAL DEFENSE, Victoria Kriuchkovskaia, "HYDROGEL PLATFORM TO INVESTIGATE PROGRESSION OF DRUG-RESISTANT GLIOBLASTOMA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

• • All Day

  Deadline: UIUC Faculty Professional Development Grants 2024-25

  • Professional Development

Thursday, January 16, 2025

• • 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
  • CSL 301 & Zoom

  Final Exam: Jiarui Sun

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 12:00 - 3:00 pm
  • 1001 S Wright Street, Champaign (University YMCA) Murphy Lounge

  Winter Break Program: Cozy Crafts Art Workshop

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 1:00 - 4:00 pm
  • 1208 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL

  Snack & Study

  • Social/Informal Event

Friday, January 17, 2025

• • All Day

  Spring Qualifying Written Exam

  • Informational
• • 10:00 am - 12:30 pm

  Social Anxiety and Social Media: Teen and Young Adult Stress in a Fast-Paced World

  • Professional Development

Monday, January 20, 2025

• • All Day

  Deadline to apply • Defense Science & Technology Summer Internships at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Informational
• • All Day

  Last day to cancel registration in order to receive a full refund of tuition and fees for Spring 2025 courses.

  • Other
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - Campus Holiday

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

• • All Day

  First Day of Spring 2025 Instruction

  • Other
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm

  FGI Webinar: MSE Walls – The good, the bad and the ugly – A look at three MSE wall failures and the lessons learned

  This presentation will review three very different MSE wall failures; one failure involves the construction of a two stage MSE, another is related to cold weather construction, and the last is related to design issues. 1.0 PDH

  • Professional Development
• • 3:30 pm
  • 2079 NHB

  Seminar Speakers: CliMAS Professors Cristian Proistosescu and Zhuo Wang

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 4:50 pm
  • 2035 Campus Instructional Facility

  NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Prof. Aditi Verma

  Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

• • 1:00 pm

  Admissions Webinar - Diverse Pathways to Law: Navigating Your Unique Experience

  • Webinar
• 

  • 3:30 - 5:00 pm
  • University YMCA room 228 (1001 S. Wright St. Champaign)

  GLOBE Info Session - RSVP required

  • Informational
• 

  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 4039

  AE Seminar Speaker Aaron Berliner: Space Bioprocess Engineering for an Offworld Biomanufactory

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Nick Baker (Kalsotra Lab): "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  PEEC Seminars- Dr. Matthew Doremus, UIUC, Too Hot to Handle?: Temperature shapes the heritable endosymbiont community of an agricultural spider

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 pm
  • ECEB, Room 1002 Grainger Auditorium

  Canceled: ECE Explorations (200) - First Week Back Spring 2025 Semester -

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 6:00 - 7:30 pm
  • 1080, Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB

  Evening French Conversation (Soirée en français)

  • Social/Informal Event

Thursday, January 23, 2025

• • All Day

  Spring Qualifying Research Oral Exams

  • Informational
• • 1:00 - 4:00 pm
  • 1208 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL

  Snack & Study

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 5:00 pm
  • 108 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820

  ACDIS: Seminar Series - Dr. Andrew Castiglioni

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, January 24, 2025

• • All Day

  Spring Qualifying Research Oral Exams

  • Informational
• • 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
  • Beckman Institute

  Connecting Researchers Studying Aging at Illinois Conference

  This mini conference will connect Illinois researchers studying aging.

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 9:00 - 10:00 am
  • 2004 Natural History Building

  EEB Colloquium - Dr. Becky Fuller, EEB Head, University of Illinois - Topic: Mentorship Guidelines

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 - 11:30 am

  BODIES IN FOCUS: Endangered Bodies & Activism

  • Lecture
• • 12:00 - 1:30 pm

  From Spreadsheet Chaos to Data Magic: Power BI Revolution for Social Services!

  • Professional Development
• • 12:00 pm
  • 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)

  Physics Careers Seminar: ""

  • Lecture
• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ Department Head Nancy Amato

  • Other
• • 3:00 pm
  • W-109 Turner Hall

  NRES Seminar Series 1/24/25: Kara Andres

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, January 27, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

  Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Ruiying Cheng/Van Bortle Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:30 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium

  Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Snigdha Mathure/Van Bortle Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:30 - 3:30 pm
  • The Orange Room, Main Library - 1408 W. Gregory Drive, Champaign IL

  Tastes of Culture in the Orange Room

  • Informational
• • 3:00 pm
  • 2240 DCL

  I-MRSEC Students and Postdocs Training on Science Posters - Dr. Natasha Mamaril

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Meng Jiang, "Lessons Learned from Enhancing Knowledge and Reasoning for (Large) Language Models"

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

  AbbVie Lecture: AbbVie rep: TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • B102 CLSL

  Entomology Colloquium - Valeria Trivellone, Assistant Research Scientist, INHS, UIUC - "Evolution of Host-Pathogen Associations and Emerging Diseases: Insights from Vector-Borne Pathogen Systems"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  AbbVie Lecture: Professor Michael C. Jewett, Stanford University, "Synthetic Biology for People and Planet Health"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

• • All Day

  Illinois Pre-Selection Application Deadline | 2025 Health Equity Research Experience at Mayo Clinic

  Outstanding undergraduates examine health equity through hands-on research for 10 weeks over the summer at Mayo Clinic. Students are matched with a faculty mentor and fully immersed in the research and culture of a major medical center with top-notch scientists.

  • Other
• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: Hadiseh Alaeian, Purdue University

  Speaker: Hadiseh Alaeian, Assistant Professor, Purdue University

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • 2079 NHB

  Seminar Speakers: CliMAS Professors Francina Dominguez and Jeff Trapp

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 4:50 pm
  • 2035 Campus Instructional Facility

  NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Prof. Stephanie Diem

  Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

• • 5:00 pm
  • 1002 Grainger Auditorium, ECE Building

  ECE Explorations (200): ECE Student Advancement Committee (ECESAC) "Ask the Head" Town Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
  • ISR Dining Hall, Main Street Lobby - 1010 W Illinois St,Urbana

  Lunar New Year Celebration and Dinner

  • Festival/Celebration
• • 6:00 pm
  • 1080, Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB

  Cinéclub "Au revoir, les enfants!" (Malle, 1987)

  • Film Screening

Thursday, January 30, 2025

• • 1:00 - 2:00 pm
  • NCSA (1205 W. Clark St. Urbana, IL, 61801) | Room: TBD

  AIFARMS Seminar: Seeing the Unseen: Modular Open-Source Ecosystem for GeoAI

  The AIFARMS Institute invites you to join us in person or via Zoom on January 30, 2025, for an exciting seminar titled "Seeing the Unseen: Modular Open-Source Ecosystem for GeoAI" featuring Dr. Jinha Jung from Purdue University. Free to attend; registration required.

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 - 4:00 pm
  • 1208 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL

  Snack & Study

  • Social/Informal Event
• 

  • 4:00 - 5:30 pm
  • Beckman Institute 1005

  Neuroscience Workshop:  Library Tools for Success

  • Conference/Workshop
• • 5:00 pm
  • 108 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820

  ACDIS: Seminar Series - Camila Martinica

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, January 31, 2025

• • All Day

  Last day to withdraw* and receive a 90% refund of tuition.

  • Other
• • 9:00 - 10:00 am
  • 2004 Natural History Building

  EEB Colloquium - Catchen Lab Talks

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)

  REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Markian Dobczansky

  • Lecture
• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ Department Head Nancy Amato

  • Other
• • 3:00 pm
  • W-109 Turner Hall

  NRES Seminar Series 1/31/25: Jamie Ellis

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 - 7:00 pm
  • Natural History Building Core

  Recruiting Reception

  • Reception/Open House