Research Seminars @ Illinois
Tailored for undergraduate researchers, this calendar is a curated list of research seminars at the University of Illinois. Explore the diverse world of research and expand your knowledge through engaging sessions designed to inspire and enlighten.
To have your events added or removed from this calendar, please contact OUR at ugresearch@illinois.edu
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
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Speaker: Jennifer Choy, Dugald C. Jackson Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison
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Bo Wang, PhD Department of Bioengineering; Stanford University "Learning the super power of animal diversity one cell type at a time: regeneration, symbiosis, and evolution"
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An evening of fun and fellowship where you can learn more about our neuroscience research. Provide feedback and support for those presenting at the upcoming Society for Neuroscience Meeting in Chicago, IL, October 5th - October 9th, 2024. RSVP - Requested to accurately order food.
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Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
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Rafael Jaime Gonzalez Ricon, Graduate Research Assistant - Animal Sciences
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Join CSBS, the College of Education, and IHSI for the first event of the 2024-25 Community-Engaged Research Series. Connect with faculty and staff across campus involved in community-engaged research! Identify common goals and challenges in community-engaged research, learn from each other's experiences, find and share resources, and build your university and...
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This talk evaluates the impact of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the Trump administration’s maximum pressure campaign, & the Biden administration’s appeasement of the Islamic Republic & propose a theoretical framework for how future US administrations can prevent nuclearization in Iran.
Thursday, September 12, 2024
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This lecture provides a kind of bibliographic back story to Gerald Horne's latest book, “Armed Struggle? Panthers & Communists; Black Nationalists & Liberals in Southern California through the Sixties & Seventies.” This lecture will draw upon decades of scholarship by Horne that led to the publication of his latest book.
Friday, September 13, 2024
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Join us for a zoom event with philosophy alumna Mengyi Wang who will share her experiences with law school and tips for success.
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Dr. Matt Scholz (Arizona State University) is this week's seminar speaker.
Monday, September 16, 2024
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
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Speaker: Chen-Lung Hung, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University
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Noah Whiteman, PhD Departments of Integrative Biology and Molecular and Cell Biology; University of California, Berkeley "Acquisition of chemical defenses via horizontal gene transfer in insects"
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Stormwater management is broadly broken down into the following two categories: (1) flood protection and (2) pollution control. Flood protection pertains to controlling stormwater volume whereas pollution control focusses on controlling contaminated water. This webinar will focus on stormwater regulations and technologies for managing stormwater. 1.0 PDH
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Carbon Nanoparticle Combustion in a Shock Tube: Spectroscopy and Microscopy Techniques for Improved Modeling of Optical Signatures with Colton Willhardt
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Dr. Steven Chu will present his talk titled, "The Challenges in Getting to Net-Zero GHG Emissions" on September 17, 2024 at 3 p.m. in the Beckman Institute Auditorium, 1025.
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In this talk, Jordan Pascoe draws on the resources of feminist philosophy to explore how disasters trigger social change – in both progressive and authoritarian ways. By examining how people learn from one another in disaster contexts, and how this learning can shift longstanding practices of collective knowing, she explores how and why disasters generate social change...
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Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
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Sebastian Rand (Philosophy, Georgia State University) will deliver a lecture as part of this year's Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series, organized by the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
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"Insights into Nuclear Speckles in Mammalian Cells Using Super-Resolution Microscopy" - Minxue Liu, Graduate Research Assistant, Beckman Institute - Cell & Developmental Biology Instrument: MINFLUX
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Receive an overview of human subjects research, by Sarah Mumford, director, Office for the Protection of Research Subjects.
Thursday, September 19, 2024
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In an era of increased awareness of diversity and inclusion, understanding hidden bias and its impact on educational institutions has become paramount. Professor Mahzarin Banaji is an experimental psychologist who has spent 35 years understanding how the mind works in social contexts. Her presentation will center on a science-based analysis of the hard questions of how to
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In an era of increased awareness of diversity and inclusion, understanding hidden bias and its impact on educational institutions has become paramount. Professor Mahzarin Banaji is an experimental psychologist who has spent 35 years understanding how the mind works in social contexts.
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Join the Animal Turn Research Cluster for their first event of the term. Babette Tischleder is Professor of North American Studies at University of Göettingen, Germany. Her talk is titled Hidden Among Us: Urban WildLife and Nonfiction Writing.
Friday, September 20, 2024
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Dr. John Taylor (University of Rhode Island) is this week's seminar speaker.
Monday, September 23, 2024
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
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Speaker: Matthew Otten, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
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Zsuzsa Gille (Sociology, UIUC) & Lou Turner (Urban & Regional Planning, UIUC) will deliver a lecture as part of this year's Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series, organized by the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
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The Imaging Technology Group and the IGB Core will be co-hosting a half-day X-ray CT workshop. Talks covering theory, the instrumentation available on campus, and current research projects will be presented along with tours of both the ITG and IGB facilities. Workshop agenda: https://www.igb.illinois.edu/corefacilities/news/core-xrayct-workshop-2024
Thursday, September 26, 2024
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kato-kiriyama offers a dynamic evening of poetry, storytelling, community conversation, and even a prompt or two to take with you and continue your verses.
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Identity is at once the most central and the most unhappy word in contemporary discourse. Debates continue to rage within literary studies in the academy and in the public sphere at large about when, how, and to what extent, the discourse of identity, and sometimes its associated identity politics, should apply when we engage questions around...
Friday, September 27, 2024
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FSHN Graduate Seminar Series Presenter | Teresa Bergholz, PhD Associate Professor Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition Michigan State University Title | TBA Room 180 Bevier Hall 11:00 AM Friday, September 27, 2024
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Dr. Samantha Lindgren (College of Education, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) is this week's seminar speaker.
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Panel: Improvise & Intervene Reflections and Acknowledgements For this cohort of Interseminars fellows and conveners, circle-keeping and reflection have been a methodological commitment. In this talkback, we invite you to learn and hear about the joys, challenges, and lessons of forming an interdisciplinary collective. Refreshments will be served.
Saturday, September 28, 2024
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This is part of the culminating event series with Interseminars "Improvise & Intervene." Saturday's events include the Body Mapping Family Workshop, Performance & Panel: Culminating Reenactment I & II, a workshop with invited guest Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and more.
Sunday, September 29, 2024
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This is part of the culminating event series with Interseminars "Improvise & Intervene." Sunday's events include a tour, Closing Collage & Movement, and Community Dinner Reception.
Monday, September 30, 2024
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The Biomedical Imaging Center & The Stephens Family Clinical Research Institute at Carle Health seminar series continues with Dr. Mark Chiew, Department of Medical Biophysics University of Toronto.
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
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Speaker: Krister Shalm, Sr. Research Associate, University of Colorado Boulder
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Valkiria Durán-Narucki, PhD Lecturer & Environmental Psychologist; College of Staten Island, City University of New York "The Ecology of Learning Spaces: A Perspective from Environmental Psychology" IGB Seminar - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
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Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Thursday, October 3, 2024
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Some of the most consequential outcomes of global warming for societies and ecosystems are changes in extreme events. Comparing 2000-2019 with 1980-1999, extreme temperature and flood events have more than doubled globally while the number of disastrous storms and droughts has increased by 30-50%.
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Join us for the second installment of the Gwendolyn Brooks Social Justice Initiative. This year's featured guest is Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, who will give a public reading Thursday, Oct. 3 2024 at 5:30PM.
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Join us for the second installment of the Gwendolyn Brooks Social Justice Initiative. This year's featured guest is Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, who will give a public reading Thursday, Oct. 3 2024 at 5:30PM.
Friday, October 4, 2024
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To provide actionable information on the climate impacts on energy and other sectors and how climate change may influence the sustainable energy futures, we developed a three-pronged strategy focusing on high-resolution modeling to improve simulations of extreme events ...
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FSHN Graduate Seminar Series Presenter | Jason M. Ridlon, PhD Associate Professor Department of Animal Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Title | TBA Room 180 Bevier 11:00 AM Friday, October 4, 2024
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Dr. Bess Perry (Michigan State University) is this week's seminar speaker.
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Graduate students in the humanities, arts and related fields: you are cordially invited to join us for a casual, relaxed happy hour gathering on the first floor of Levis Faculty Center!
Monday, October 7, 2024
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
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Speaker: Joseph Heremans, Scientist, Argonne National Laboraotry
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Professor Jamie L. Jones (English) will talk about her scholarly work over lunch at this event for residents of the Honors LLC, Innovation LLC, and Sustainability LLC.
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Professor Jamie L. Jones (English) will talk about her scholarly work over lunch at this event for residents of the Honors LLC, Innovation LLC, and Sustainability LLC.
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Paul Sternberg, PhD Bren Professor of Biology in the Division of Biology and Biological Engineering; California Institute of Technology "Neural computation of semiochemicals in nematode sex and diapause" IGB Seminar - Gene Networks in Neural and Developmental Plasticity Research Theme
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Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
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"Round Table Discussion" - Dr. Glenn Fried, Director of the Core Facilities - Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology Topic: Core Facilities
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Friday, October 11, 2024
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Please join us for a lecture by David Velleman, the Miller Research Professor in Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University.
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Dr. Rabin Bhattarai (Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) is this week's seminar speaker.
Monday, October 14, 2024
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
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Speaker: Tzu Chieh Wei, Professor, Stony Brook University
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Aaron Wright, PhD Schofield Endowed Chair in Biomedical Science; Department of Biology;Baylor University "Phenotype-Based Profiling of Environmental and Host-Associated Microbiomes" IGB Seminar - Microbiome Metabolic Engineering Research Theme
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
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Lunch with the Core, Speaker TBA
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This meeting is invite only and for LLS faculty and staff.
Thursday, October 17, 2024
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A poetry reading by Kathy Fagan, made possible by the Robert J. and Katherin Carr visiting author series.
Friday, October 18, 2024
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Dr. Bob Hughes (Oregon State University) is this week's seminar speaker.
Monday, October 21, 2024
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The Biomedical Imaging Center & The Stephens Family Clinical Research Institute at Carle Health seminar series continues with Bruce Damon, Stephens Family Clinical Research Institute.
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
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Robert Townsend, program director for Humanities, Arts, and Culture at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, will discuss the latest from the Humanities Indicators project. Learn what their data means for our work inside and outside the academy in 2024 and beyond.
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Robert Townsend, program director for Humanities, Arts, and Culture at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, will discuss the latest from the Humanities Indicators project. Learn what their data means for our work inside and outside the academy in 2024 and beyond.
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Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
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"Assessing the Impact of Paraben on Uterine Collagen Architecture: An Integrated Approach Using SHG, AFM, and Nanoindentation" - Mahmuda Arshee, Graduate Teaching Assistant - Mechanical Science & Engineering
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Join Mary Ton, Digital Humanities Librarian, for dinner and discussion at the Humanities Research Institute about how to engage with AI ethically and effectively in your research and teaching through beginner-friendly tools.
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Join Mary Ton, Digital Humanities Librarian, for dinner and discussion at the Humanities Research Institute about how to engage with AI ethically and effectively in your research and teaching through beginner-friendly tools.
Thursday, October 24, 2024
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Please join us for 2 talks by recent CAS Associates! At 11am, Brett Kaplan (Comparative & World Literature) discusses her most recent book project, "Epiphany's Lament" and at noon, Ben Grosser (Art + Design) speaks on "Finite Social Media, Degrowth Aesthetics, and Reimagined Digital Futures."
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Jesse Erickson, Astor Curator of Printed Books & Bindings at the Morgan Library, joins the RBML virtually to discuss Black bibliographical exploration and trace the migrations of Black Vernacular English (BVE) from 18th-century literature to that of the hip hop generation. This presentation is open to the public; please pre-register at go.illinois.edu/Erickson.
Friday, October 25, 2024
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Dr. Emily Cohen (University of Maryland) is this week's seminar speaker.
Monday, October 28, 2024
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
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Speaker: Alex Ma, Assistant Professor, Purdue University
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Sara Piccirillo, PhD The Robert M. Faxon Jr. Endowed Professor in Neuro-Oncology; University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center "Intra-tumor heterogeneity of human glioblastoma at single-cell and spatial resolution" IGB Seminar - Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering Research Theme
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
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Ayesha Bhikha, Graduate Research Assistant - Physics & Wenqing Zhu, Graduate Research Assistant - Physics
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Focusing on research and teaching in global languages and cultures, and on some artworks concerned with languages, this lecture calls for making a more pragmatic, and more assertive, case for knowing and learning world languages. Knowing and learning world languages are crucial to our students’ lives, to solving urgent social and technological problems, and to...
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Focusing on research and teaching in global languages and cultures, and on some artworks concerned with languages, this lecture calls for making a more pragmatic, and more assertive, case for knowing and learning world languages. Knowing and learning world languages are crucial to our students’ lives, to solving urgent social and technological problems, and to...
