Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering - Events of Interest

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

• • 3:30 pm
  • 1024 Chemistry Annex

  CHEM 515 Literature Seminar: "Catalytic Intermediates in Directed C-H Functionalization by First-Row Transition Metals", Tiana Huynh, University of Illinois - U/C

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

• • 2:00 - 4:00 pm
  • Material Sciences Building, 1304 W Green St, Urbana - Room 119

  Thriving as a Graduate Student Series - "Cultivating a Strong and Productive Relationship with Your Advisor"

  This presentation by Alexis Thompson will explore strategies for PhD and Master's students to cultivate a strong and productive relationship with their thesis advisor, focusing on clear communication, aligning expectations, and proactively seeking guidance for research and career development. This event is for Grainger Engineering graduate students, including ChBE.

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 6, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Elizabeth Biddinger, CUNY, "Electro-organic Reactions for Sustainable Applications" (host: Paul Kenis)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

• 

  • 1:00 - 2:00 pm
  • NCSA 1030

  The Cancer Center at Illinois Seminar Series

  With advancement in identification of T cell subsets and advent of novel immunotherapeutics, costimulatory/inhibitory molecules have been attractive targets for researchers and clinicians. Costimulatory molecules are diverse, sometimes redundant, but effectuate T cell responses to steer potency and memory formation.

  • 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

Saturday, March 15, 2025

• • 1:00 pm

  Spring Vacation Begins

  • Other

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Chemistry Annex 1024

  Sylvia M. Stoesser Lecture in Chemistry

  • Lecture

Monday, March 24, 2025

• • 7:00 am

  Instruction resumes

  • Other

Monday, March 31, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • 117 RAL

  FINAL DEFENSE, Jeff Xu, , "Workflows and automated platforms for nanocrystal synthesis, purification, and characterization"

  • 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

Friday, April 4, 2025

• • All Day
  • Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801 AND Noyes Laboratory, 505 S Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801

  CHBE/OXE UG Research Symposium and Scholarship Awards Ceremony

  • Meeting