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.
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Monday, February 10, 2025
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HRI Social Movements Reading Group invites you to join us Mon Feb 10, 5-6:30 PM at Salaam Center to discuss what Sudanese organizers have called “counter-revolutionary war” in Sudan.
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
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Jennifer Guerriero, PhD Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Breast Cancer Program, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center; Harvard Immunology, Harvard Medical School "Harnessing macrophages in advanced breast cancer to combat drug-resistance"
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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, February 12, 2025
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We have all sat through presentations that were boring, confusing, and drab. How do you communicate your message most succinctly? What visuals will captivate and inform your audience the best? Is it only about your slide design or are there other techniques that leave a lasting impression?
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Join entomology graduate student Elizabeth Bello as she presents how environmental scanning electron microscopy and other microscopy techniques can be used to visualize and analyze brochosomes, which are multifunctional insect-derived nanoparticles.
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"Testing Puncture Mechanism using 3D printing materials" Jules Chabain, Graduate Student - Evolution, Ecology and Behavior
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Although its usefulness as such a metric is debatable, the notion of accuracy itself still organizes much of the thinking about AI. In an analysis of FORDISC, a database of skull measurements used to identify human remains, Iris Clever demonstrates how a focus on accuracy might struggle to account for the entwined relationship between humanity, science, and technology.
Thursday, February 13, 2025
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Associate Professor, Dept. of Comparative Biosciences, Dept. Bioengineering, Dept. Biophysics, IGB, CCIL
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Conversation with exhibiting artist Millie Wilson and curator David Evans Frantz, in conjunction with Millie Wilson: The Museum of Lesbian Dreams at Krannert Art Museum, on view through March 1. Wilson has deftly examined feminism, queerness, and the historical erasure of such positions from institutions of art. Frantz is an independent curator based in Los Angeles.
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Join us for a discussion on global collaboration and period poverty as we come together to watch the trailer for the compelling documentary Uman Tok.
Friday, February 14, 2025
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Speaker: Dr. Laurent Loinard
Saturday, February 15, 2025
Monday, February 17, 2025
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Rodrigo M. Braga, Ph.D Assistant Professor, Ken & Ruth Davee Department of Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, will present, "Detailed Functional Anatomy of Large-Scale Brain Networks Revealed by Precision fMRI at 7T .”
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
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Rose Marks, PhD School of Integrative Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Genomic Ecology of Global Change Research Theme "What resurrection plants can tell us about the genomics of resilience"
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Krystiana Krupa, Senior Program Officer, NAGPRA, will discuss her work in documenting Ancestors’ remains and cultural items, researching their relationship to Tribal communities, and facilitating repatriation.
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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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This presentation will introduce the work of several Kalaallit Inuit artists whose careers began in the late 1970s, a period of heightened anticolonial activism in their homeland. Examining the connections between art and activism, my talk will discuss how Kalaallit artists have challenged colonial representations and asserted their right to self-definition.
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Thursday, February 20, 2025
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Speaker: Leonid Petrov (Virginia)
Friday, February 21, 2025
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February 21, 2025: 'Stress-Related Narratives in Oral Histories with South Asian Immigrants to the United States', Sana Saboowala, University of Illinois
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The OVCRI – Humanities, Arts, and Related Fields invites you to this session on the NEH and its programs, including: Collaborative Research, Digital Humanities Advancement Grants, Fellowships, Public Scholars, and Scholarly Editions and Translations. The panelists are recent NEH fellowship and grant recipients, and we will have time for conversation and Q & A.
Monday, February 24, 2025
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
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Speaker: Joel Yang, Research Scientist, Engineering Quantum Systems Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Beth M. Stadtmueller, PhD Assistant Professor of Biochemistry Biomedical & Translational Sciences, Carle Illinois College of Medicine University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Mining for anti-infectious Molecules from Genomes Research Theme "Investigating and engineering the structures and functions of Secretory Antibodies"
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
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Join us for 2 talks featuring recent CAS Associates: John Levi Barnard on oppositional trends in human-animal relations and Lindsay Rose Russell on the history of sex and lexicography.
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"Optimization of In Vitro Reservoir Computing informed by Volume Electron Microscopy and Simulation" Andrew Dou, Graduate Research Assistant, Mechanical Science & Engineering
Thursday, February 27, 2025
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Based on two years of ethnographic interviews with patients of chronic illness and participant observation with practitioners of complementary medicine in California, this talk examines what “sensitivity” can provide as a source of information about the relationship between the individual and the environment, and how this impacts health.
Friday, February 28, 2025
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The goal of the symposium is to take stock of creative frameworks for design educators (in architecture and landscape architecture in particular) to collaborate with communities. We will reflect on existing models and speculate on new directions for university-community partnerships in the built environment.
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Dwight Reynolds (UC Santa Barbara) ~ People often sing in languages they cannot speak and often listen to songs in languages they do not understand. The result is a complex network of lyrics and melodies performed by musicians, and for audiences, who may or may not understand the language of the words.
Monday, March 3, 2025
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I propose postcards of defense practices for migrant communities in Mexico, as well as latent and manifest migrant struggles occurring in Mexico City in the 21st century.
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The What Now? Series continues March 3rd (Monday) from 5:15-6:45pm at BNAAC (1212 W. Nevada Street). Confirmed speakers include Ciro Incoronato and Jessica Greenberg.
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
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Speaker: Ed Barnes, Professor of Physics, Virginia Tech
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Do you travel to present research in other countries? Do you collaborate with researchers at foreign institutions? If you answered “yes” to either of these questions, your research may be subject to export control policies.
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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, March 5, 2025
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"Illuminating Brain Circuit Architectures" Xiaotang Lu, Assistant Professor, Chemistry
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The Humanities Research Institute and Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity co-host an annual event bringing together faculty, staff, students, and community members to recognize people who have made a difference in academia. Each speaker will have five minutes to tell the story of a woman in their discipline that changed the field in important ways.
Thursday, March 6, 2025
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Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Friday, March 7, 2025
Monday, March 10, 2025
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
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Speaker: Angel Rubio, Research Scientist and Co-Director of Initiative for Computational Catalysis Flatiron Institute
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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, March 12, 2025
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Join us for a reading by Graduate students in the MFA program in Creative Writing. This event will feature: Paz Hoggatt Tyler Moore Andrea Giugni
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Community Speaker Series panelists: Tracy Barkley (Directory, Sola Gratia Farm) Emily Stone (Director of Public Engagement, College of Education) Bhakti Verma (PhD student, Curriculum & Instruction)
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Community Speaker Series panelists: Tracy Barkley (Directory, Sola Gratia Farm), Emily Stone (Director of Public Engagement, College of Education), and Bhakti Verma (PhD student, Curriculum & Instruction).
Thursday, March 13, 2025
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Dr. Jog, Associate Research Scientist in the Wetland Science Program at the Prairie Research Institute will present “Using plants to understand wetland health.”
Friday, March 14, 2025
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Speaker: Dr. Peter Melchior
Saturday, March 15, 2025
Monday, March 17, 2025
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Monday, March 24, 2025
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
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Speaker: Richard Averitt, Professor, University of California, San Diego
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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, March 26, 2025
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Friday, March 28, 2025
Monday, March 31, 2025
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Meticulously culled together from across available, offered, contraband, and leaked sources, the exhibition and book are rich repositories for all those concerned with histories of nuclear weapons and engaged at the intersections of spatial, social and environmental justice, as well as anticolonial archival practices.
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Please join students and faculty at the annual ChBE 121 Poster Session. This event will take place from 6-8 p.m. at the Richmond Family Gallery in the Alice Campbell Alumni Center. Students in small teams review and prepare a poster describing an Industrial Safety Incident. The posters include details such as an event timeline and immediate and long-term impacts.