Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering - Events of Interest

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

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • 321 Gregory Hall

  FINAL DEFENSE, Vanessa DaSilva, "Selective Deconstruction of Polyethylene to Propylene via Isomerization/Metathesis and 1-hexene Isomerization Studies"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 4, 2025

• • 4:30 - 5:45 pm
  • 217 Noyes Laboratory and 170 Noyes Laboratory (505 S Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801)

  CHBE Scholarship Awards Ceremony & Reception

  • Meeting

Monday, April 7, 2025

• • 9:00 am
  • 117 RAL

  FINAL DEFENSE, Dejuante Walker, "Modeling Transport and Dynamics in Redox Active Polymer Solutions for Flow Battery Applications"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  R.C. Fuson Lecture: Professor David Nagib, Ohio State University, "Harnessing Radical Polarity: Remote C-H Functionalization by H-Atom Transfer Mechanisms"

  • 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
• • 3:00 pm
  • 164 Noyes Lab

  FINAL DEFENSE, Victoria Kriuchkovskaia, "HYDROGEL PLATFORM TO INVESTIGATE PROGRESSION OF DRUG-RESISTANT GLIOBLASTOMA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  R.C. Fuson Lecture: Professor David Nagib, Ohio State University, "Harnessing Carbene Polarity: Unconventional Carbonyl Reactivity"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

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  • 1:00 - 2:00 pm
  • NCSA 1030

  Extracting Mechanisms of Cell Cross Talk in Pancreatic Cancer Using Big Data

  This event is part of the Cancer Center at Illinois Seminar Series. Coffee and light snacks will be provided.

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:00 pm
  • 1027 Lincoln Hall

  FINAL DEFENSE, Dongyu Fan, "3D Tracking of Solute Dynamics in Heterogeneous Polymer Networks"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 11, 2025

• • 10:00 am
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  FINAL DEFENSE, Nayeong Kim, "INTEGRATION OF REDOX-ELECTROSORPTION AND REDOX-ELECTRODIALYSIS FOR WATER REMEDIATION, WASTE VALORIZATION, AND ORGANIC SPECIES SEPARATIONS""

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 14, 2025

• • 7:00 pm
  • B102 CLSL

  2025 John C. Bailar, Jr. Lecture: Professor James Mayer, Yale University, 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
• • 3:30 pm
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  2025 John C. Bailar, Jr. Lecture: Professor James Mayer, Yale University, TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium