College of LAS: For Faculty & Staff

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Monday, April 29, 2024

- 3:00 pm
- Beckman 3269
Professor Luke Chao, Harvard University, "Ultrastructural regulation of the mitochondrial inner-membrane"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

- 1:00 pm
- 279 Davenport Hall
Amie Lanzendorf, Final Defense, UIUC, "Development of Small Molecules Toward Therapeutic Applications for Myotonic Dystrophy and Cancer"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar, Prof. Priya Shah, University of California, Davis (Shukla) "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger: Integrating Virology and Engineering to Drive Discovery"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
Distinguished Inorganic Lecture: Professor A. Dean Sherry, University of Texas - Dallas, "Next Generation MR Contrast Agent Designs for Imaging Physiology & Metabolism"(I)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 - 4:45 pm
- 134 Astronomy Building
Measuring Supermassive Black Holes and the Hubble Constant with H2O Megamasers
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 p.m.
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Angelica Caserio/Metcalf Lab and Courtney Hill/Hatoum-Aslan Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Knight Auditorium in the Spurlock Museum
Science, Health, & Equity Series: Unintended Consequences of Premature Black Death

Please join us for the first event of the Science, Health, and Equity Series: Unintended Consequences of Premature Black Death at the Spurlock Museum on Tuesday, Apr. 30 at 4 p.m.
- Lecture

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Career Development Seminar: Chirag Shah
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:30 pm
- Lucy Ellis
Southern European Societies After Authoritarianism Greece, Spain & Portugal in Conversation
- Lecture
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- CLSL B-102
Professor Lisa Fredin, Lehigh University, "Untangling Photodriven Mechanisms using Computation"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 5:00 pm
- GH 321
Faculty Meeting
- Meeting

Thursday, May 2, 2024

- All Day
Student Appreciation
- Other
- 12:00 pm
Dr. Cecilia Menjivar: Annual Florian Znaniecki Lecture
- Lecture
- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
Professor Jesus Velazquez, University of California - Davis, "Development of Structure-Function Correlations in 2D and 3D Metal Sulfide Electrocatalysts to Guide the Selective Conversion of CO2 and CO to Alcohols" (M)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 6:00 pm
- Levis Faculty Center, Rooms 422-424
HRI Prizes for Research Ceremony & Year-End Reception
- Other

Friday, May 3, 2024

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Roberto Zoncu (University of California - Berkeley) - "The Lysosome in Nutrient Sensing and Cellular Growth Control"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor Laura Sanchez, University of California Santa Cruz "Visualizing Microbial Chemistry in situ"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
Sociology 2024 Outstanding Alumni BA Award
- Ceremony/Service
- 4:00 pm
Sociology 2024 Outstanding Alumni PhD Award
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, May 6, 2024

- 2:00 pm
- 217 Noyes Laboratory
Chelsea Swartchick, Final Defense, UIUC, "Rational Design of Activity-based Sensing Probes to Reveal the Impact of Inflammation on Human Disease Progression"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 7, 2024

- 2:00 pm
- 161 Noyes Laboratory
David Ryffel, Final Defense, UIUC, "Total Synthesis of Bioactive Natural Products: Darobactin A and Nimbolide"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
2024 T.S. Piper Inorganic Thesis Award: Joe Lastowski, "Challenging Long-Held Views in Chemistry: Surprising New Discoveries about Chemical Bonds" and Daniel Hu, "Development of Organometallic Nickel Complexes with Oxygenase-type Reactivity" (I)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student/Postdoc Seminar: Molly Crowder/Blanke Lab and Sharik Khan/Kuzminov Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 8, 2024

- 1:00 pm
- 274 Materials Science building
FINAL DEFENSE, Paola Baldaguez Medina "Harnessing Redox Electro-Sorbents and Reactive Separations for Efficient PFAS Remediation in Water Systems""
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:30 pm
- RAL 171
FINAL DEFENSE: Mahima Unnikrishnan, "Implications of Nanoparticle-Protein Interactions on Protein Assembly and Conformation". Advisors: Professor Martin Gruebele and Professor Catherine Murphy
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
2024 Flygare Memorial Lecture: Professor Theodore Goodson III, University of Michigan, "Nonlinear Optical and Time-Resolved Properties of Novel Organic Materials"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 9, 2024

- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
2024 Klemperer Award for Outstanding Materials Chemistry Ph.D. Thesis TBD (M)
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 10, 2024

- 9:00 am
- 1092 Lincoln Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, David Potts, "Engineering Intrapore Environments to Tune Rates and Selectivities for Liquid Phase Catalysis over Zeolites"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:30 pm
- 161 Noyes Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Ohsung Kwon, "Influence of Solvation and Microenvironment on Alkene Epoxidation with Hydrogen Peroxide within Titanium Silicates"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- I-Hotel "Technology" Room
Annual Awards Ceremony
- Ceremony/Service

Saturday, May 11, 2024

- 1:30 pm
- Smith Memorial Hall
2024 History Convocation
- Ceremony/Service

Sunday, May 12, 2024

- 9:00 - 10:30 am
- Smith Memorial Hall – 805 South Matthews Avenue, Urbana
ChBE 2024 Spring Convocation Ceremony
- Ceremony/Service
- 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Centennial Plaza (between Noyes Lab and the Chem Annex)
ChBE Spring 2024 Convocation Reception
- Ceremony/Service

Wednesday, May 15, 2024

- 9:00 am
- 165 Noyes Lab
Prof. Brian Rosen, Tel Aviv University, "Bridging Materials Science and Chemical Engineering: Exploiting Diagrams for Catalyst Design"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 17, 2024

- All Day
Reception Workshop (UIUC & OSU)
- Conference/Workshop

Saturday, May 18, 2024

- All Day
Reception Workshop (UIUC & OSU)
- Conference/Workshop

Sunday, May 19, 2024

- All Day
Reception Workshop (UIUC & OSU)
- Conference/Workshop

Friday, May 24, 2024

- 10:00 am
- 217 Noyes Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Aashutosh Boob, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 29, 2024

- 11:00 am
- 117 Roger Adams Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Melanie Brunet Torres, "DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF TOOLS TO VISUALIZE AND ASSESS THE ROLES OF SPECIFIC BIOMOLECULES IN CELLS"
- Seminar/Symposium