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IEI Event Calendar

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

Monday, March 23, 2026

Instruction resumes

7:00 am
- Other

Thursday, March 26, 2026

REEEC New Directions Lecture: Halyna Padalko, "AI for Disinformation: Threat or Remedy?”

4:00 pm

306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
- Lecture

Friday, March 27, 2026

Final Defense of Ankit Gautam, "Computational design for critical element sustainability: from platinum-free electrocatalysis to developing non-empirical tight-binding methods for rare-earth element recovery"

11:00 am 03/06/2026

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Final Defense of Archana Verma, "Thermodynamic Origins of Molecular Doping Efficiency for Advancing Predictive Design of Organic Semiconductors"

2:00 - 4:00 pm

1024 Chem Annex
- Seminar/Symposium
Big Ten Trans Studies Research Symposium: Opening Plenary & Reception

4:00 pm

register for location and further details
- Conference/Workshop

Saturday, March 28, 2026

Big Ten Trans Studies Research Symposium

9:00 am - 4:30 pm

register for location and further details
- Conference/Workshop
Knit & Sit | Krannert Art Museum

1:00 - 3:00 pm

Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign

Do you weave, crochet, knit, felt, or embroider? Bring your project and join us for a weaver’s circle in the galleries. All ages and experience levels are welcome! First-time knitter? A limited amount of yarn and needles will be available—and anyone wanting to learn can receive a simple knitting lesson. Free and open to everyone. *Parking nearby is free on weekends.*
- Festival/Celebration

Monday, March 30, 2026

FINAL DEFENSE: Sukanya Dutta, "Plasmon Generated Solvated Electrons". Advisor: Professor Stephan Link

1:30 pm

B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 121 Poster Session

6:00 pm 8:00 p.m.

Richmond Family Gallery in the Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801.
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Final Defense of Hsin-Lan "Nicole" Chiang "Machine Learning for Protein Engineering Across Data Modalities"

10:00 am 03/06/2026

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Prof. Teri W. Odom, Northwestern University, "Light-Matter Interactions mediated by Plasmonic Lattices"

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium
Final Defense of Bidipta Ghosh, "DEFECT ENGINEERING IN COMPLEX METAL OXIDE ELECTROCATALYSTS FOR OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION"TBA

3:00 pm 03/06/2026

TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 2, 2026

Final Defense of Kavinraaj Ella Elangovan "TBA"

11:00 am 03/06/2026

2269 Beckman Institute
- Seminar/Symposium
AbbVie Lecture: Dr. Justin Dietrich, AbbVie, "Utilization of DEL Screening to Identify Non-Covalent Inhibitors of the Coronavirus Main Protease and Optimization into Clinical Candidate ABBV-903"

4:00 - 4:30 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
AbbVie Lecture: Professor Robert R. Knowles, Princeton University, "Excited-State Catalysts for Selective Bond Activations"

4:30 - 5:30 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 3, 2026

Nohemy Celis, Final Defense, UIUC, "Molecular Prosthetics for CFTR: Restoring Anion Secretion to Cystic Fibrosis Airway and Intestinal Epithelia"

3:00 pm

B102 Chemical Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 6, 2026

Final Defense of Neil Tran, "Elucidating Reactivity of Atomically Dispersed Catalysts via Multiscale Modeling: Active Sites, Reaction Mechanisms, and Fluid-Modulated Kinetics"

8:00 - 10:00 am

165 Noyes
- Seminar/Symposium
Genentech Lecture: Dr. Jacob Timmerman, Genentech, "Data Science-Driven Evolution of the Manufacturing Process to TRPA1 Inhibitor GDC-6599"

4:00 - 4:30 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Genentech Lecture: Professor Jim Wells, University of California, San Francisco, "Attacking the Cancer Surfaceome"

4:30 - 5:30 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Final Defense of Rajarshi Samajdar, CONFORMATION GOVERNS NANOSCALE ELECTRON TRANSPORT IN BIOMOLECULES AND SYNTHETIC ORGANICS

1:00 - 3:00 pm

217 Noyes
- Seminar/Symposium
Basma al-Sharif Film Screenings

7:00 pm

Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory, Urbana
- Film Screening

Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Final Defense of Haowei Long, Low-Temperature Anion Exchange Membrane Ammonia Electrolysis for Hydrogen Production

9:00 am 03/06/2026

117 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Kameron Medine, Final Defense, UIUC, "Automated Synthesis of Lipids"

2:00 pm

217 Noyes Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
Prof. Marissa Weichman, Princeton, "New Experimental Platforms for Molecular Polaritonics"

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 9, 2026

Final Defense of Sonji Lamichhane, "SCREENING AND IMAGING TOOLS FOR DETECTING MAMMALIAN CELL DIFFERENTIATION AND ALGAL BACTERIAL INTERACTION"

9:00 am 03/06/2026

433 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Daniel Greenan, Final Defense, UIUC, "Fine Tuning the Properties of Amphotericin B as a Molecular Prosthetic and as an Antifungal"

9:30 am

Noyes Laboratory, 505 S Mathews Ave, Room 217
- Seminar/Symposium
Riley Carter, Final Defense, UIUC, "Bioinformatics-guided Discovery of New Natural Product Biosynthetic Strategies"

1:00 pm
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Todd Squires, University of California, Santa Barbara, (Host: Prof. Baron Peters)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 10, 2026

Alec Murray, Final Defense, UIUC, “A Prosthetic Reaction”

10:00 am

157 Noyes Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
ChBE/OXE Undergraduate Research Symposium

12:00 - 4:00 pm

Levis Faculty Center, Room 300
- Seminar/Symposium
Research Presentation by Dr. Adrian King

1:00 pm

TBA
- Lecture
CHBE Scholarship Awards Ceremony & Reception

4:30 - 6:00 pm

Levis Faculty Center, Room 300
- Ceremony/Service
Basma al-Sharif Film Screening

7:00 pm

Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory, Urbana
- Film Screening

Saturday, April 11, 2026

Improvisers Exchange: Sonic Location

1:00 - 3:00 pm

Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign

Come experience immersive sound as you view artworks at Krannert Art Museum! Members of Improvisers Exchange Ensemble will create soundscapes in the galleries through site-specific solo performance and collective improvisation in reflection and response to artwork on display.
- Performance

Monday, April 13, 2026

Organic Syntheses Lecture: Professor Michael Krische, University of Texas at Austin, "Hydrogen Transfer for Catalytic C-C Coupling Beyond Premetalated Reagents"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Prof. Andres Montoya Castillo, CU Boulder, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 16, 2026

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Styliana Avraamidou, University of Wisconsin (Host: Prof. Paul Kenis)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
REEEC New Directions Lecture: James T. Andrews, "Narrating the Soviet Metropolis: The Moscow Metro and the Story of Socialism”

4:00 pm

306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
- Lecture

Friday, April 17, 2026

Smalley Graduate Fellowship Lecture: Robin Turner

12:00 pm

1205 W Nevada
- Lecture

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Prof. Tian Lan, U Penn, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 23, 2026

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Siddarth Krishna, University of Wisconsin (Host: Prof. Elizabeth Rogers) "Tuning the Dynamic Structure and Reactivity of Metal-Zeolites for Sustainable Catalytic Chemistries"

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Prof. Christina (Tina) Wang, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Title:TBD"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 24, 2026

REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Jared Meunier, "Sharp Power and the Enjoyment of Crisis: The Mueller Report as Simulated Justice"

12:00 pm

108 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
- Lecture

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Prof. Tom Truskett, University of Michigan, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
- Seminar/Symposium
Dr. Nick Carruthers, NDC Medchem Consulting LLC, "Serotonin, LSD and the Police"

4:00 pm

217 Noyes Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 30, 2026

Lilly Lecture: Professor Lutz Ackermann, University of Göttingen, "Title: TBD"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, May 4, 2026

3M Lecture: Dr. Rajdeep Kalgutkar, 3M, "Title: TBD"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
3M Lecture: Professor Brent S. Sumerlin, University of Florida, "Title: TBD"

5:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Instruction Ends

All Day
- Other

Thursday, May 7, 2026

Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect

All Day
- Other

Friday, May 8, 2026

Final Exams Begin

All Day
- Other

Thursday, May 14, 2026

Final Defense of Haisu Kang, TBA

10:00 am 03/06/2026

TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, May 16, 2026

Commencement

8:30 am

Memorial Stadium
- Ceremony/Service

Sunday, May 17, 2026

CHBE 2026 Spring Convocation Ceremony

9:30 11:00 am

Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Tryon Festival Theatre, 500 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
- Ceremony/Service
ChBE 2026 Spring Convocation Reception

11:00 1:00 p.m.

Illini Union - room ABC, 1401 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801
- Reception/Open House