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IEI Event Calendar

Find more information about what you can do around Campus and Champaign-Urbana.

Monday, February 3, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Prof. Weixin Tang, University of Chicago, "Advancing Epigenetic Profiling and Genome Editing by Enzyme Engineering"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Organic Chemistry Faculty Candidate: Dr. Michael Strauss, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Developing General Synthetic Methods Across Molecular Dimensions"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
Prof. Mark E. Tuckerman, New York University, "Beating the viscosity-conductivity inverse relation barrier to create a breakthrough electrolyte for emerging battery applications: Quantum mechanics holds the key"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 7, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Anastasiia Strakhova, "Benefits of Illegality: Clandestine Jewish Emigration from Eastern Europe, 1870s-1914"
- Lecture

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 161 Noyes Laboratory
Organic Chemistry Faculty Candidate: Dr. Marissa Lavagnino, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Cross-Couplings Enabled by Photoredox and Main Group Catalysis"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 13, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Prof. Shauna M. Paradine, University of Rochester, "Catalytic Strategies for the Selective Construction of sp3-rich Organic Scaffolds"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 17, 2025

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Organic Faculty Candidate: Dr. Sophia Shevick, Harvard University, "Chemical Complexity in Catalysis and Synthesis"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 20, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Lilly Lecture: Dr. Hannah L. Vonesh, Lilly: TBD, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Lilly Lecture: Professor Sophie Rousseaux, University of Toronto, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 21, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Maxim Krupskiy, "'Foreign Agents' Legislation: Between Democratic Resilience and Weaponized Transparency"
- Lecture

Monday, February 24, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor Xiaoyu Zhang, Northwestern University, "Expanding the Druggable Space by Innovative Chemical Biology Approaches"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Megan Robertson, University of Houston, "Enabling Polyolefin Circularity through Melt Functionalization and Upcycling" (host: Damien Guironnet)
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 27, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor Brandon Greene, University of California, Santa Barbara, "title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 3, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Amgen Lecture, Amgen rep: Dr. Heather Johnson, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Amgen Lecture w/Professor Jeffrey W. Bode, ETH Zurich, "Title: TDB"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Justin Notestein, Northwestern University, (co-hosts: Chris Rao, Paul Kenis)
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 6, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Elizabeth Biddinger, CUNY, (host: Paul Kenis)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Marvel/Voorhees Postdoc Symposium: Speakers TBD
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 1066 Lincoln Hall (702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801)
REEEC New Directions Lecture: Alexis Peri, "Diplomacy of the Heart: Soviet and American Women's Cold-War Correspondence"
- Lecture

Monday, March 10, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Bristol Myers Squibb Lecture, BMS rep: Dr. Bill Gallagher, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Bristol Myers Squibb Lecture w/Professor Brian Blagg, University of Notre Dame, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
Prof. Brett McGuire, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "The Evolution of Aromatic Chemistry in the Interstellar Medium"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 13, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Mark Swihart, University at Buffalo, "A Non-equilibrium Flame Aerosol Process to Create High-entropy Nanomaterials" (co-hosts: Hong Yang, Paul Kenis)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Fuson Student Talks: speakers TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, March 15, 2025

- 1:00 pm
Spring Vacation Begins
- Other

Monday, March 24, 2025

- 7:00 am
Instruction resumes
- Other

Monday, March 31, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Novartis Lecture: Dr. Raundi Quevedo, Novartis, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Novartis Lecture: Professor Donna Blackmond, Scripps Research Institute, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 6:00 8:00 p.m.
- Richmond Family Gallery in the Alice Campbell Alumni Center located at 601 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801.
CHBE 121 Poster Session

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.
- Informational

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

- 10:00 am
- TBA
REEEC New Directions Lecture: J. Mackenzie Pierce
- Lecture

Friday, April 4, 2025

- All Day
- Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
CHBE/OXE UG Research Symposium and Scholarship Awards Ceremony
- Meeting

Monday, April 7, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
R.C. Fuson Lecture: Professor David Nagib, Ohio State University, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. James Moon, University of Michigan, "Engineering Strategies to Modulate the Immune System" (host: Joon Kong)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
R.C. Fuson Lecture: Professor David Nagib, Ohio State University, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 10, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor Andy Thomas, Texas A&M University, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Sijin Li, Cornell University, "An Integrated Synthetic Biology Pipeline to Understand and Harness Plant Specialized Metabolism" (host: Huimin Zhao)
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 17, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Genentech Lecture: Dr. Derek Dalton, Genentech, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Genentech Lecture: Professor Matthew D. Shoulders, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 18, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Olga Zaitseva-Herz
- Lecture

Friday, April 25, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Markian Dobczansky
- Lecture

Monday, April 28, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine Lecture: Dr. Daniel Pippel, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine Lecture: Professor Christo S. Sevov, Ohio State University, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Joao Soares, University of Alberta , (host: Baron Peters)
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 2, 2025

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102
2025 Flygare Memorial Lecture: Professor Emily A. Carter, Princeton University, TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Emily Davidson, Princeton University, (host: Ying Diao)
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

- All Day
Instruction Ends
- Other

Thursday, May 8, 2025

- All Day
Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect
- Other

Friday, May 9, 2025

- All Day
Final Exams Begin
- Other

Saturday, May 17, 2025

- 8:30 am
Commencement
- Ceremony/Service

Sunday, May 18, 2025

- 9:30 - 11:00 am
- Krannert in Tryon Festival Theatre
ChBE 2025 Spring Convocation Ceremony
- Ceremony/Service
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
- Illini Union - room ABC
ChBE Spring 2025 Convocation Reception
- Reception/Open House

Monday, May 19, 2025

- All Day
First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 1
- Other

Monday, June 16, 2025

- All Day
First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 2
- Other

Saturday, November 1, 2025

- 8:00 am
- Allerton Park, Monticello, IL
37th Annual Beak-Pines Organic Area Allerton Conference
- Conference/Workshop

Monday, November 10, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Jeffery W. Kelly, Scripps Research Institute, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium