Nano Seminars

Professor Lisa Fredin, Lehigh University, "Untangling Photodriven Mechanisms using Computation"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 5/1/2024

CLSL B-102

Seminar/Symposium

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)

3:30 pm 5/2/2024

Chem Annex 1024

Seminar/Symposium

Professor Laura Sanchez, University of California Santa Cruz "Visualizing Microbial Chemistry in situ"

4:00 pm 5/3/2024

116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

Chelsea Swartchick, Final Defense, UIUC, "Rational Design of Activity-based Sensing Probes to Reveal the Impact of Inflammation on Human Disease Progression"

2:00 pm 5/6/2024

217 Noyes Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE: Claire Schmit "SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF TRANSITION METAL MALONDIALDIMINATES" Advisor: Professor Gregory Girolami

10:00 am 5/7/2024

RAL 171

Seminar/Symposium

David Ryffel, Final Defense, UIUC, "Total Synthesis of Bioactive Natural Products: Darobactin A and Nimbolide"

2:00 pm 5/7/2024

161 Noyes Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

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)

3:30 pm 5/7/2024

Chem Annex 1024

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE, Paola Baldaguez Medina "Harnessing Redox Electro-Sorbents and Reactive Separations for Efficient PFAS Remediation in Water Systems""

1:00 pm 5/8/2024

274 Materials Science building

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE: Mahima Unnikrishnan, "Implications of Nanoparticle-Protein Interactions on Protein Assembly and Conformation". Advisors: Professor Martin Gruebele and Professor Catherine Murphy

2:30 pm 5/8/2024

RAL 171

Seminar/Symposium

2024 Flygare Memorial Lecture: Professor Theodore Goodson III, University of Michigan, "Nonlinear Optical and Time-Resolved Properties of Novel Organic Materials"

4:00 - 5:00 pm 5/8/2024

1024 Chem Annex

Seminar/Symposium

2024 Klemperer Award for Outstanding Materials Chemistry Ph.D. Thesis, Qi Hua "Understanding and Controlling the Reactivity of Oxygen Reduction and Methanol Oxidation Electrocatalysts" and Falon Kalutantirige "Morphogenesis-Morphology-Function Relationships of Irregular Nanomaterials Using Advanced Electron Microscopy and Graph Theory"(M)

3:30 pm 5/9/2024

1024 Chem Annex

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE, David Potts, "Engineering Intrapore Environments to Tune Rates and Selectivities for Liquid Phase Catalysis over Zeolites"

9:00 am 5/10/2024

1092 Lincoln Hall

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE: Saman Fatima "Design and Engineering of Conformationally Switchable Artificial Metalloproteins (swArMs)", Advisor: Professor Lisa Olshansky

11:00 am 5/10/2024

Noyes Lab 163

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE, Ohsung Kwon, "Influence of Solvation and Microenvironment on Alkene Epoxidation with Hydrogen Peroxide within Titanium Silicates"

12:30 pm 5/10/2024

161 Noyes Lab

Seminar/Symposium

ChBE 2024 Spring Convocation Ceremony

9:00 - 10:30 am 5/12/2024

Smith Memorial Hall – 805 South Matthews Avenue, Urbana

Ceremony/Service

ChBE Spring 2024 Convocation Reception

10:30 am - 12:30 pm 5/12/2024

Centennial Plaza (between Noyes Lab and the Chem Annex)

Ceremony/Service

Prof. Brian Rosen, Tel Aviv University, "Bridging Materials Science and Chemical Engineering: Exploiting Diagrams for Catalyst Design"

9:00 am 5/15/2024

165 Noyes Lab

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE: Joe Lastowski "TRANSITION METAL AND ACTINIDE COMPLEXES WITH UNSYMMETRICAL ALKYL CHELATES". Advisor: Professor Gregory Girolami

10:00 am 5/16/2024

RAL 171

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE, Aashutosh Boob, "'Computational Tools for Engineering Functionally Improved Genetic Components and Cellular Factories""

10:00 am 5/24/2024

217 Noyes Lab

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE, Melanie Brunet Torres, "DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF TOOLS TO VISUALIZE AND ASSESS THE ROLES OF SPECIFIC BIOMOLECULES IN CELLS"

11:00 am 5/29/2024

117 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium