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Fulbright U.S. Student Program: April Events for Undergrad & Grad Students
Recurring

All Day 4/9/2024 - 5/3/2024
- Informational
INNER VOICES Social Issues Theatre AUDITIONS for FALL 2024
Recurring

All Day 4/30/2024 - 5/1/2024

ARMORY FREE THEATRE, ROOM 160, Armory Building
- Performance
Instruction Ends

All Day 5/1/2024
- Other
FRIT Faculty Meeting

10:00 - 11:30 am 5/1/2024

2090 B, LCLB
- Meeting
Undergraduate Research Experience in Statistics (URES) Symposium

10:00 am - 3:00 pm 5/1/2024

Beckman Institute - Rooms 1005 and 3269
- Conference/Workshop
Cell and Developmental Biology Career Development Seminar: Chirag Shah

12:00 - 1:00 pm 5/1/2024

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Southern European Societies After Authoritarianism Greece, Spain & Portugal in Conversation

12:30 pm 5/1/2024

Lucy Ellis
- Lecture
Arthur G. Nikelly Annual Lecture: Southern European Societies After Authoritarianism: Greece, Spain, and Portugal in Conversation

12:30 pm 5/1/2024

Lucy Ellis Lounge, Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building
- Lecture
Professor Lisa Fredin, Lehigh University, "Untangling Photodriven Mechanisms using Computation"

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

CLSL B-102
- Seminar/Symposium
Faculty Meeting

3:30 5:00 pm 5/1/2024

GH 321
- Meeting
Linguistics Student Award and Graduate Recognition Ceremony

4:00 pm 5/1/2024

LCLB Lucy Ellis Lounge
- Ceremony/Service
Q&A with Former RNC Chairman Michael Steele

4:00 pm 5/1/2024
- Lecture
Pause Café: Discussion and French cuisine

4:00 - 6:00 pm 5/1/2024

4080 A, LCLB
- Social/Informal Event
Chin-Woo Kim Phonetics Laboratory Naming and Dedication Ceremony

5:00 pm 5/1/2024

LCLB Lucy Ellis Lounge
- Ceremony/Service
Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect

All Day 5/2/2024
- Other
Student Appreciation

All Day 5/2/2024
- Other
GASLA-17: the 17th meeting of Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition
Recurring

All Day 5/2/2024 - 5/4/2024

Illini Union
- Conference/Workshop
Dr. Cecilia Menjivar: Annual Florian Znaniecki Lecture

12:00 pm 5/2/2024
- Lecture
Florian Znaniecki Annual Lecture: "Immigrant Integration, Exclusion, or Accommodation? Ethnographic Observations from the Rural Midwest"

12:00 pm 5/2/2024

Room 3057 Lincoln Hall
- Lecture
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
HRI Prizes for Research Ceremony & Year-End Reception

4:00 - 6:00 pm 5/2/2024

Levis Faculty Center, Rooms 422-424
- Other
HRI Prizes for Research Ceremony & Year-End Reception

4:00 - 6:00 pm 5/2/2024

Levis Faculty Center, Rooms 422-424
- Other
Final Exams Begin

All Day 5/3/2024
- Other
Fall-Deadline Funding Opportunities: Strategy Session for Faculty

12:00 - 1:00 pm 5/3/2024
- Informational
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Roberto Zoncu (University of California - Berkeley) - "The Lysosome in Nutrient Sensing and Cellular Growth Control"

12:00 pm 5/3/2024

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory
- 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
Sociology 2024 Outstanding Alumni PhD Award

4:00 pm 5/3/2024
- Ceremony/Service
Sociology 2024 Outstanding Alumni BA Award

4:00 pm 5/3/2024
- Ceremony/Service
2024 CU Tango Music Festival
Recurring

All Day 5/4/2024 - 5/5/2024
- Performance
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
Organize & Analyze: Social Movements Reading Group
Recurring

12:00 - 1:30 pm 5/7/2024

Levis Faculty Center 424
- Lecture
GGIS Colloquium | Impacts of Retrogressive Thaw Slump Expansion on Vegetation Succession across Northern Alaska

1:00 pm 5/7/2024

2049 Natural History Building
- Ceremony/Service
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
Microbiology Student/Postdoc Seminar: Molly Crowder/Blanke Lab and Sharik Khan/Kuzminov Lab

4:00 pm 5/7/2024

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
NRC Conflicts and Change: Book Club for Educators

6:00 pm 5/7/2024
- Other
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
Women in Science Lecture Series: Sana Saboowala

12:00 - 1:00 pm 5/9/2024

University Archives Main Library Room 146
- Lecture
Founding Director Dr. Larry Smarr Returns to NCSA

12:00 pm 5/9/2024

National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Auditorium (Room 1122)
- Lecture
Capstone Presentations - May 9 Afternoon Session

1:00 - 4:30 pm 5/9/2024
- Conference/Workshop
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
Capstone Presentations - May 10 Morning Session

10:00 am - 1:30 pm 5/10/2024
- Conference/Workshop
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
GGIS Class of 2023-24 Reception & Award Ceremony

3:00 pm 5/10/2024

Room 3083 Natural History Building (SESE Core)
- Ceremony/Service
Alumni Lecture: Dr. H.N. Cheng (PhD, ’74, Gutowsky), USDA Agricultural Research Service - Plastic Pollution: How to Tackle this Problem

3:30 - 4:30 pm 5/10/2024

CLSL B102

Alumni Lectures feature Chemistry at Illinois alumni who have, with the foundation of their chemistry studies at Illinois, made a meaningful impact in their chosen field.
- Lecture
Annual Awards Ceremony

4:00 pm 5/10/2024

I-Hotel "Technology" Room
- Ceremony/Service
TIS Year-End Party!

5:00 pm 5/10/2024

Crystal Lake Park Boathouse
- Ceremony/Service
Commencement

8:30 am 5/11/2024
- Ceremony/Service
2024 History Convocation

1:30 pm 5/11/2024

Smith Memorial Hall
- Ceremony/Service
SLCL Convocation

4:30 pm 5/11/2024

Foellinger Auditorium 709 S. Mathews Ave. Urbana, IL 61801
- Ceremony/Service
Spring Convocation

5:30 pm 5/11/2024

Virginia Theater, Champaign, IL

Students graduating with degrees in the following units are invited to participate: African American Studies Anthropology Asian American Studies Gender and Women’s Studies Latina/Latino Studies Sociology This ceremony is int
- Ceremony/Service
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
Chemistry 2024 Spring Convocation Ceremony

2:00 pm 5/12/2024

Tryon Festival Theatre in Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
- Ceremony/Service
2024 Statistics Convocation

4:30 pm 5/12/2024

Foellinger Auditorium
- Ceremony/Service
Department Convocation Ceremony

4:30 pm 5/12/2024

Foellinger Auditorium
- Ceremony/Service
First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 1

All Day 5/13/2024
- Other
Intensive Language Instruction Program (ILIP)
Recurring

All Day 5/13/2024 - 5/24/2024
- Lecture
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
Deepfakes: How Computers Mimic Us

12:00 - 12:50 pm 5/15/2024

Main Library 220 and online via Zoom
- Informational
From the Archive to the Village: Tatar in Action

3:00 pm 5/15/2024
- Lecture
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
Reception Workshop (UIUC & OSU)
Recurring

All Day 5/17/2024 - 5/19/2024

Lucy Ellis Conference Room
- Conference/Workshop
Spring 2024 TED Fellows Project Showcase

11:00 am - 12:30 pm 5/19/2024
- Conference/Workshop
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