Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering - Events of Interest

Thursday, November 6, 2025

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  NOBBCChE St. Elmo Brady Lecture Series: Dr. Uzoma Nwabara, "Discovering Oxygen Evolution Catalysts via High-Througput Experimentation"

  2:00   3:00 pm

  Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory - Room B102

  • Lecture

Saturday, November 8, 2025

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  East Central Illinois American Chemical Society 10th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference

  9:00 am - 5:00 pm

  Illini Union

  • Conference/Workshop

Monday, November 10, 2025

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  Final Defense: Thompson, Gunnar - " Advancing Techniques for Engineered Tissue Models of the Bone Marrow"

  1:00 - 1:50 pm

  157 Noyes Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Jeffery W. Kelly, Scripps Research Institute, "The Scientific Origins of Drugs that Slow Neurodegeneration and the Pharmacological Future of Treating Dementias"

  4:00 pm

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

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  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Justin Notestein, Northwestern University, (co-hosts: Chris Rao, Paul Kenis) "Selective Oxidations and Oxygenate Production over Nanostructured and Well-Defined Oxide Catalysts"

  2:00 pm

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 13, 2025

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  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Jovan Kamcev, University of Michigan (host: Xiao Su) "Controlling the Selectivity of Charged Polymer Membranes"

  2:00 pm

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 14, 2025

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  Final Defense Jiankai Ge "Kinetic Modeling Frameworks for the Chemical Recycling of Polyolefins"

  12:00 pm

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 17, 2025

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  C.S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Gregory C. Fu, California Institute of Technology, "Title: TBD"

  4:00 pm

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

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  C.S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Gregory C. Fu, California Institute of Technology, "Title: TBD"

  4:00 pm

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 20, 2025

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  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Aleksandra Vojvodic, University of Pennsylvania (host: Alex Mironenko)

  2:00 pm

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, November 22, 2025

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  Fall break begins

  8:30 am

  • Ceremony/Service