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
Thursday, April 3, 2025
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Speaker: Andreas Stavrou (Chicago)
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"Biocluster" Dan Davidson, CNRG Director of CNRG and Research Computing
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Calvin Mackie, founder of STEM NOLA, will give a lecture titled, "Hope in the 21st Century." A kid-friendly reception will follow, as will a preview of the Beckman Institute Open House from 4-6 p.m
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The RBML welcomes Justine Murison, editor of a new critical edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1850 novel. Murison will discuss the work’s historical and literary contexts, the revolutionary politics with which the novel engages, and the enduring questions it asks about American society. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing. This event is free, and a
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Speaker: Tomer Schlank (Chicago)
Friday, April 4, 2025
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The Beckman Institute Open House is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, April 4, and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 5, 2025. It offers a fun, interactive look at the interdisciplinary research happening at the Beckman Institute. It happens at the same time as Engineering Open House each year.
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Join us for talks by recent CAS Associates. At 11am Yuguo Chen (Statistics) discusses how statistical network analysis is used to develop methods to account for the complex dependencies in network data; and at noon, Soo Ah Kwon (Asian American Studies) argues for moving beyond simple binaries such as reformist/radical to better understand youth activism.
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Join us for a talk by recent CAS Associate Soo Ah Kwon (Asian American Studies) on moving beyond simple binaries such as reformist/radical, inside/outside, or status-quo/anti-establishment to better understand youth activism.
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Join us on Friday, April 4th for a Graduate Student Lunch & Learn: Publishing on Gender Related Topics. Please rsvp at https://go.illinois.edu/GradLunchLearn
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On average, English speakers utter around 16,000 words per day, most of it in interactions with other people. Yet, the language sciences have predominately approached language as if we use it for monologue. In this talk, Dr. Christiansen will argue that we should view language as being fundamentally collaborative and improvisational, like a game of charades.
Saturday, April 5, 2025
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The Beckman Institute Open House is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, April 4, and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 5, 2025. It offers a fun, interactive look at the interdisciplinary research happening at the Beckman Institute. It happens at the same time as Engineering Open House each year.
Monday, April 7, 2025
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Work-in-progress talk and paper: “Little Tech on the Prairie" by Matthew Darmour-Paul, PhD candidate in Sociology at Australian National University and tutor in architecture at the University of Sydney. His research explores place-based computational practices and techno-nationalism in the American Midwest.
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Presentation title: Shedd Aquarium’s Experience Evolution Phase 2: Preparing Shedd for the Next Century of Service
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
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Speaker: Bill Fefferman, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
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Owen Ryan, PhD Director of Cell Engineering Research at ADM "An adventure in yeast synthetic biology and industrial biotechnology"
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Between the late 1920s and mid-1960s, several Jewish social scientists and humanities scholars laid the theoretical groundwork for ethnic and immigration studies in the United States. The concepts these scholars developed – terms such as acculturation, urbanism, assimilation, and cultural pluralism – reshaped the understanding of America as a pluralist society of...
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This webinar will describe the use of cover systems over wastes and leachate lagoons to reduce leachate generation and costs. In particular, if rain/clean water falls on wastes or a leachate lagoon, it becomes contaminated and must be treated. Covering wastes or a lagoon prevents fresh water from becoming leachate thus dramatically reducing the cost and amount of water tha
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Visual Feast: How the Sausage Gets Made with Jay Cournoyer.
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We welcome you to join us at the iSchool for an in-person panel discussion and informal reception on Tuesday April 8th. Critical data studies takes on one of the most important issues facing society today: how do we build secure, accessible and equitable information infrastructures to support our communities? Join us for a conversation on the concepts, sites of study...
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Dr. Bryce Henson is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication & Journalism and an Africana Studies Program Affiliate at Texas A&M University.
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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, April 9, 2025
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Please join us for a lecture by Herman von Hesse, an assistant professor of art history, titled "Love of Stone Houses: Anxious Transformations, Collateralized Ancestral Spaces and the Ambivalence of Security on the Gold Coast."
Thursday, April 10, 2025
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Dr. Winful, a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology and a participant in the DRIVE Illinois Distinguished Postdoctoral Program, will discuss her research on the biological mechanisms linking stress to health, with a focus on inflammation.
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Francesca Russello Ammon, associate professor of city and regional planning and historic preservation at the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania, is a cultural historian of urban planning and the built environment. Her teaching and research focus on the changing spaces of American cities, from World War II to the present.
Friday, April 11, 2025
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Speaker: Dr. Peter Nugent
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Calling all graduate students, how fast can you present your research? Join this event to meet other Illinois graduate students and share your research in 3 minutes or less. Light lunch available for all registered participants. Registration is Required at https://go.illinois.edu/LightningTalk25
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Join us for a lecture by professor Sarah Clark Miller, an associate professor of philosophy, bioethics, and women's gender, and sexuality studies at Pennsylvania State University.
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In this colloquium, Dr. Chiu-Shee will be presenting her ongoing field work on the ideals and practices of "the ecological city" and stimulate discussion and new ideas as she proceeds with her research.
Saturday, April 12, 2025
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Speaker: Nicole Yunger Halpern, University of Maryland
Monday, April 14, 2025
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Join us for the next lecture as part of the Proseminar in Antiracist Science. Dr. Lisa Spanierman, Professor in the School of Counseling and Counseling Psychology at Arizona State University, will present "Decentering and Recentering Whiteness: One White Scholar’s Journey"
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
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Speaker: Babek Saradjeh, Professor of Physics, Indiana University
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Wade Zeno, PhD Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of Southern California "Exploring Intrinsic Disorder at the Protein-Lipid Interface"
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The Interdisciplinary Sport Studies Research Cluster is pleased to host Dr. Letisha Brown, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Brown will give a guest talk on her upcoming book titled, Say Her Name: Centering Black Feminism and Black Women in Sport, with Rutgers University Press
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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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Please join us to celebrate the book launch of LLS professor, Aja Y. Martinez's new book The Origins of Critical Race Theory: The People and Ideas That Created a Movement, co-authored with Robert O. Smith (University of North Texas). The book weaves together the many sources of critical race theory, recounting the origin story for one of the most insightful and...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
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Join us for a lecture in the Illinois Forum on Human Flourishing in a Digital Age Speaker Series with Christine Rosen. Her lecture "Defending the Human in a Technological World" will explore what it means to be human in a world that promises near-endless opportunities for virtual, disembodied experience.
Thursday, April 17, 2025
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Assistant Professor, Dept. of life Sciences
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"Data Management" Yifei Kang, CNRG Research Data Management Specialist
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TITLE: Connecting Scales and Knowledge in Practice, Research, and Teaching
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A Gathering of Poets: Angie Estes and Janice N. Harrington
Friday, April 18, 2025
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Extracellular Vesicles in the Clinic: Establishing New Partnerships Between Illinois and Mayo Clinic
This workshop will provide the opportunity to learn about the use of EVs as markers of disease progression from Mayo Clinic faculty, as well as become acquainted with newly emerging technologies to capture and detect EVs by faculty at Illinois. The poster session will provide an informal venue for exploring new collaborations. Register by April 9.
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Extracellular Vesicles in the Clinic: Establishing New Partnerships Between Illinois and Mayo Clinic
This workshop sponsored by Beckman Institute, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute, Mayo Clinic & Illinois Alliance and Cancer Center at Illinois will provide the opportunity to learn about the use of EVs as markers of disease progression from Mayo Clinic faculty and become acquainted with newly emerging technologies to capture and detect EVs by faculty at Illinois.
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Speaker: Dr. Jordon Mirocha
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Join us for a lecture by ethnomusicologist Olga Zaitseva-Herz on the role of music in Russia’s war on Ukraine. She explores how state-controlled and grassroots music scenes shape the war’s political and social dynamics. A postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta, Zaitseva-Herz examines music as a tool of resistance, diplomacy, and identity.
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From 1-3 p.m. Friday, April 18, celebrate the Vis Lab's newest location with refreshments, remarks and a ribbon-cutting in 2203 Beckman.
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Join us for a lecture by John D. Norton, a distinguished professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Join the Department of Philosophy for a lecture with John D. Norton, a distinguished professor at the University of Pittsburgh. His lecture "How the material theory of induction dissolves the problem of induction" will explore Hume's problem of induction and argues that attempts to revive the problem within material theory fail.
Monday, April 21, 2025
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Scholarly interest in British Black Power has grown over the last decade with the movement increasingly situated as a key conjuncture in modern British history and an important site in the global history of Black Power. Yet there is still more to know about how Black Power operated at the grassroots in communities across Britain.
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Scholarly interest in British Black Power has grown over the last decade with the movement increasingly situated as a key conjuncture in modern British history and an important site in the global history of Black Power. Yet there is still more to know about how Black Power operated at the grassroots in communities across Britain.
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In an era of escalating ecological and political crises, design provides a hopeful language for planetary futures. Yet the legacies on which our promises of design build today may lie at the very heart of these crises.
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
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Speaker: Sara Mouradian, Assistant Professor, University of Washington
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Jill Lens, PhD Dorothy M. Willie Professor in Excellence, College of Law; University of Iowa "Stillbirth: The Experience, and the Laws that Frame it"
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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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In this evocative conversation, MacArthur Fellow and award-winning artist Taylor Mac—a playwright, actor, songwriter, performance artist, director, and producer whose epic performance work, A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, was nominated for a 2017 Pulitzer Prize...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
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"An Introduction to the LSM 980" Umnia Doha, Research Scientist,Core Facilities Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
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Darius and Catherine Brubeck discuss their pioneering jazz curriculum and performance program developed in apartheid-era South Africa that brought black and white musicians together to create a soundtrack to the freedom struggle and its aftermath. South African jazz scholar and performer Colin Miller joins this conversation.
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Darius and Catherine Brubeck discuss their pioneering jazz curriculum and performance program developed in apartheid-era South Africa that brought black and white musicians together to create a soundtrack to the freedom struggle and its aftermath. South African jazz scholar and performer Colin Miller joins this conversation.
Thursday, April 24, 2025
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Panel, 12:00-1:00pm 180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave "The Science and Practice of Team Science" Stephen Fiore, PhD Director, Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, University of Central Florida Melanie Bauer Grant Writing Manager, Nova Southeastern University Reception, 1:00-2:00pm Gatehouse Lobby, IGB Administration Building, 1206 West Gregory Drive
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Internationally known jazz pianist Darius Brubeck is joined on stage by University of Illinois students Adib Young (sax), Emma Taylor (bass) and Max Osawa (drums) in a two-set performance that showcases a wide range of jazz styles and offers the audience a chance to hear how jazz music has a universal connection and longevity.
Friday, April 25, 2025
Monday, April 28, 2025
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The Master of Science in Psychological Science students invite you to learn about their ongoing research! See posters describing the latest psychological science research and have the opportunity to talk with students about their projects
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Lirong Yan, Ph.D Associate Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University, will present, "Advanced Neurovascular MR Imaging: from Marco- to Microvascular Imaging.”
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
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Speaker: Alexandre Bourassa, Senior Research Scientist, Google Quantum AI
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Corrie Whisner, PhD College of Health Solutions; Arizona State University "From struggles to snuggles: Insights into sleep and gut microbiome development on infant growth and obesity risk"
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Join us for a lecture from professor Professor Jeff McMahan from the University of Oxford.
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
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Join the LAS Office of Research to learn more about grant support for faculty researchers in LAS. Our team will share information on pre-award services, such as budgeting, document review, and preparing for submission to SPA. This session will be particularly helpful for faculty without access to dedicated unit-based grant support staff.
Thursday, May 1, 2025
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Assistant Professor, Dept. of Endocrinology
Friday, May 2, 2025
Saturday, May 3, 2025
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Join us in hearing the work of students graduating with their MFA in Creative Writing. Featuring: Mattie Fash David Miller Justine Mercado Jason Pfister Erin Stoodley Hannah Lee Thorpe
Monday, May 5, 2025
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
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Speaker: Srinivasan Arunachalam, Senior Research Scientist, IBM
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Jennifer Teper, Head of Preservation Services at the University of Illinois Library, will discuss how she uses science in her work to conserve library collections and special collections.
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Thursday, May 8, 2025
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Stop by room 346 in the Main Library on Thursday, May 8, from 3-5pm, and celebrate the semester’s end with some sweet and salty refreshments, button-making, and coloring — all are welcome! And be sure to check out the many other study break activities going on all day throughout the library as part of De-Stress Fest!
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Gather with us in community to toast this year's HRI research prize recipients and to mark the close of another academic year.
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Gather with us in community to toast this year's HRI research prize recipients and to mark the close of another academic year.