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
Monday, March 2, 2026
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12:00 - 1:00 pmKirkland & Ellis Classroom (A), College of Law, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue, Champaign, IL -
12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium -
1:00 pmRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Speaker: Rahul Trivedi
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Shai Bel, PhD Azrieli Faculty of Medicine; Bar-Ilan University “Partners in Slime: Host-Microbiota Interactions in the Gut Mucus Layer”
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:00 - 4:50 pm4025 Campus Instructional Facility
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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7:30 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 422Dr. Justin R. Garcia is an evolutionary biologist and sex researcher. He is executive director and senior scientist at the Kinsey Institute, Ruth N. Halls Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, and adjunct professor of medicine at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology“Targeted drug delivery to tumor associated macrophages in glioblastoma mouse models" Urbi Saha, PhD Student Department of Neuroscience, University of Illinois
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3:30 - 5:00 pmLevis Faculty Center 300The Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity and the Humanities Research Institute host the annual campus celebration of International Women's Day with “12 Women Who Changed the World: Untold Stories.”
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4:00 - 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102 -
The Physics Colloquium: Rafael Fernandes "Altermagnetism: an unconventional quantum state of matter"
4:00 - 5:00 pmLoomis Lab 141
Thursday, March 5, 2026
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All DayLevis Faculty Center 210The 24th annual Women’s and Gender History Symposium at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will take place March 5-7, 2026. This year’s theme is Gender and Labor. This year's conference will feature graduate research and keynote speakers Dr. Arunima Datta and Dr. Eric McDuffie.
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11:00 am - 12:20 pm4045 School of Information Sciences
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1:00 - 2:00 pm190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Hong-Ye Hu
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2:00 pm116 Roger Adams Lab
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2:00 - 3:00 pmICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
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4:00 pm116 Roger Adams Lab
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
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6:00 - 7:30 pmKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., ChampaignSPEAK stands for Song, Poetry, Art, and Knowledge. It is an open-mic public performance space at Krannert Art Museum curated by local artist, Shaya Robinson, featuring guest performers and welcoming all to the mic. *Parking nearby is free after 5 pm and on weekends.*
Friday, March 6, 2026
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Monday, March 9, 2026
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium
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12:00 - 1:00 pmESB 190
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1:00 pmRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
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5:00 - 7:00 pmAlice Campbell Alumni Center (601 S. Lincoln Ave., Urbana)
Please join us for the launch of Black, Jewish, and Beautiful: Contemporary Blewish Voices (Syracuse University Press, 2026). This anthology, co-edited by Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell, Sara Feldman, and Brett Ashley Kaplan, brings together impactful perspectives from diverse Blewish/Black Jewish landscapes in the U.S. and globally.
Tuesday, March 10, 2026
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2:00 pm116 Roger Adams Lab
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:00 - 4:50 pm4025 Campus Instructional Facility
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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5:00 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana -
5:00 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory
Ingrid Sinclair’s feature-length film Flame (1986) tells the story of two young African women who join the liberation struggle for Zimbabwe in the 1970s. The film follows Flame and Liberty as they are faced with sexual harassment by male freedom fighters and later, by the patriarchy of the newly liberated Zimbabwe.
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
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9:00 - 10:00 amCharles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102 -
11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium
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12:00 - 1:00 pmW109 - Turner Hall -
4:00 - 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102 -
4:00 - 5:00 pmLoomis Lab 141
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7:00 pmGallery Art Bar | 119 W Main St, Urbana, IL 61801
Join us for a reading of creative work my MFA students from the Department of English. This month's reading will feature: Garrett Stack Emory Vens Samuel Cearlock
Thursday, March 12, 2026
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11:00 am - 1:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W. Illinois St
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11:00 am - 1:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 208 919 W. Illinois St, Urbana
We are delighted to showcase the work of some of our most productive and creative faculty in this informal series of intellectually and spiritually invigorating presentations. You are invited to drop in when you can to learn about the exciting projects undertaken by our faculty.
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2:00 pm116 Roger Adams Lab
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2:00 - 3:00 pmICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
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4:00 pm116 Roger Adams Lab
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:00 pmLCLB Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080)
Friday, March 13, 2026
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
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2:00 - 3:00 pmChemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
Thursday, March 19, 2026
Sunday, March 22, 2026
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1:00 pmRiggs Beer Company, 1901 S High Cross Rd, Urbana, IL 61802Science on Tap is a monthly seminar series that brings scientists to the public to talk about their research in an informal setting.
Monday, March 23, 2026
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium
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12:00 - 1:00 pmESB 190
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3:30 pmHYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
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3:00 pmForbes Natural History Building -
4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:00 - 4:50 pm4025 Campus Instructional Facility
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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5:30 - 6:30 pmACRC (HUB 3070 - Third Floor, 614 E. Daniel Street, Champaign
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
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12:00 - 12:50 pmEveritt 2310
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Oraya Zinder, PhD Candidate Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois
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12:00 - 1:00 pmW109 - Turner Hall -
4:00 - 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
Thursday, March 26, 2026
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2:00 - 3:00 pmICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
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3:00 - 5:00 pmMain Library Room 346 — 1408 W. Gregory Dr, Urbana, IL 61801Dr. Anastasios Antonaras (Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki,) places Byzantine glass in context to a wider Mediterranean tradition where it emerges as a powerful medium of splendor, authority, and sacred presence.
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:00 - 5:00 pm1002 Grainger Auditorium
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4:00 pm306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
Friday, March 27, 2026
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9:00 am - 5:00 pmLevis Faculty Center 210
Please join us for the seventh annual symposium in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies. The past annual symposia were wonderful, and we hope that this conference will continue to showcase diverse and brilliant work within memory studies (broadly conceived) of graduate students. The keynote will be at 11am by Solomon Brager, author of Heavyweight.
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Monday, March 30, 2026
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm3401 Siebel Center
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium
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12:00 - 1:30 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 424This informal group aims to bring together graduate students from across campus to share their enthusiasm for the thought-provoking scholarship that animates them as people. Bring your lunch and stop by to listen and chat!
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12:00 - 1:30 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 424This informal group aims to bring together graduate students from across campus to share their enthusiasm for the thought-provoking scholarship that animates them as people. Bring your lunch and stop by to listen and chat!
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4:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210Story & Place event series: Anke Pinkert Book Talk
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4:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210Story & Place event series: Anke Pinkert Book Talk 4pm
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
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6:00 pm 8:00 p.m.Richmond Family Gallery in the Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801.
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:00 - 4:50 pm4025 Campus Instructional FacilityLectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
