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BridgeUSA Fellow Lecture: Oleksandr Kovrov, "University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Dnipro University of Technology: Developing Partnerships in the Field of Green Technologies and Land Phytoremediation"

4:00 - 5:30 pm 10/23/2025

306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
- Lecture
Talking about Farm Aid with X musician John Doe

4:30 pm 10/23/2025

Spurlock Auditorium

Join John Doe, co-founder of the legendary band X, for a conversation about the band’s appearance at the inaugural Farm Aid concert in Champaign in 1985.
- Lecture
Weaving Indigenous Futures Across Academia, Independent Research, and Visual Art

4:30 pm 10/23/2025

1080 Lucy Ellis Lounge - Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building
- Lecture
"The Realities of a Practicing Data Scientist", Alix Schmidt, Sr Data Scientist Dow Chemical, Core R&D Information Research

5:00 - 6:00 pm 10/23/2025

163 Noyes Lab
- Informational
Farm Aid Event: John Doe Concert at Rosebowl

8:00 pm 10/23/2025

Rosebowl Tavern

Join us for a special evening with John Doe, founding member of the iconic punk band X, as he takes the stage for an intimate solo performance at The Rose Bowl Tavern in Urbana, IL.
- Performance
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. John Calarco (University of Toronto) - "Small but mighty: using a tiny worm to shed light on microexon splicing"

12:00 pm 10/24/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
"Charting Cellular Landscapes in Biomedical Research with Multimodal Imaging Mass Spectrometry", Professor Jeff Spraggins, Vanderbilt University

4:00 pm 10/24/2025

RAL116
- Seminar/Symposium
Professor Amy Weeks, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "New Enzyme Chemistry to Decipher Post-translational Modification Function"

4:00 pm 10/27/2025

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Ting Xu, University of California, Berkeley (host: Deborah Leckband) "Macromolecules: Friend or Foe?"

2:00 pm 10/28/2025

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Icko Iben Jr. Series: The Fates of Stars Orbiting too Close to Massive Black Holes

3:45 - 4:45 pm 10/28/2025

NCSA Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Jian Feng / State University of New York at Buffalo

12:00 pm 10/29/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Colloquia: Dr. Michael Light

12:00 pm 10/29/2025

3057 Lincoln Hall; 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL
- Lecture
CHEM 545 Practice Seminars

2:00 - 3:00 pm 3:00 pm 10/29/2025

Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
MIP Endowed C. Ladd Prosser Lecture: Dr. Roger Cone, University of Michigan, "Understanding Energy Homeostasis, and its Impact on Obesity Pharmacotherapy"

11:00 am 10/30/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Professor, University of Michigan, Life Sciences Institute
- Seminar/Symposium
Rowan Glover CHEM 575 Seminar: "Preventing the Next Pandemic: The Potential for Broad Spectrum Antivirals through Host-Targeting Therapeutics

12:00 pm 10/30/2025

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
- Seminar/Symposium
Kinshuk Malik CHEM 575 Seminar: "From Poison to Messenger: Cyanide As An Emerging Gasotransmitter"

12:00 pm 10/30/2025

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
- Seminar/Symposium
REEEC New Directions Lecture: Choi Chatterjee and Karen Petrone, "Russia in World History: Updating the Long Telegram"

4:00 pm 10/30/2025

306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
- Lecture
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Brett Loman, Animal Sciences Department/UIUC -- "Improving Stress Resilience Through Diet-Microbiota Interactions: Insights into Gastrointestinal Motility"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 10/30/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
History Film Night: Oliver Stone's JFK

7:00 - 11:00 pm 10/30/2025

213 Gregory Hall

Join the Department of History and Phi Alpha Theta for a screening of the film JFK (Oliver Stone, 1991) followed by a discussion.
- Film Screening
FINAL DEFENSE: Chloe Litts "Non-Traditional Catalysis by Plasmonic Nanostructures" Advisor: Prashant Jain

2:00 pm 10/31/2025

Roger Adams Lab 419
- Seminar/Symposium
Literature Seminar, "Do Sweat It: Recent Developments In Non-Invasive Sweat Sensors for Biomolecule Detection”, Levi Dumpert

4:00 pm 10/31/2025

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium
Literature Seminar, “Fingerprints: Who, What, and now When”, Ella Pickell

4:00 pm 10/31/2025

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium
37th Annual Beak-Pines Organic Area Allerton Conference

8:00 am 11/1/2025

Allerton Park, Monticello, IL
- Conference/Workshop
Wassaja and Other Famous Native Americans in Illinois

2:00 pm 11/1/2025

Urbana Free Library, Lewis Auditorium 210 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801

Join professors Rosalyn LaPier and David R. M. Beck at the Urbana Free Library to hear the fascinating stories of Native Americans living in Illinois in the early 20th century.
- Lecture
Spurlock Museum Book Club: A Thousand Acres

4:00 - 5:00 pm 11/1/2025

The Literary, 122 N Neil St, Champaign, IL 61820
- Meeting
BMS talk w/BMS rep (for grad students & postdocs only), Dr. Deborah S. Mortensen, Bristol Myers Squibb, "Ligand Directed Degradation and Discovery of BMS-986458, a Potential First-in-Class BCL6 Degrader"

11:35 am - 12:30 pm 11/3/2025

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Faculty Book Talk: Erik McDuffie

4:00 pm 11/3/2025

Illini Union, Room 210

This talk appreciates the importance of Garveyism and the Midwest for understanding the contours, genealogies, and complexities of twentieth-century Black transnational resistance and for imagining that another world is possible in this moment of global crisis.
- Other
Bristol Myers Squibb Lecture, Professor Guangbin Dong, University of Chicago, "Simple-Looking but Non-Obvious Transformations"

4:00 pm 11/3/2025

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Faculty Book Talk: Erik McDuffie

4:00 pm 11/3/2025

Illini Union, Room 210

Erik McDuffie ( African American Studies and History) will discuss his book The Second Battle for Africa: Garveyism, the US Heartland, and Global Black Freedom. Part of the Story & Place event series.
- Lecture
Inorganic Literature Seminar, MOF-based Photosensitizers as Nanoplatforms for Enhanced Photodynamic Therapy, Husna Azhakath Valappil

3:30 pm 11/4/2025

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Inorganic Literature Seminar, Revisiting Zintl Chemistry: The Contemporary Shape of a Traditional Field, Akra Ghosh

3:30 pm 11/4/2025

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Student Seminar: Angie Caserio/Metcalf Lab and Simrandeep Singh/Imlay Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 11/4/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Andrew Dillin / University of California Berkley

12:00 pm 11/5/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Prof. Peng Chen, Cornell University, "Single polymer growth dynamics at single-monomer resolution"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 11/5/2025

Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
- Seminar/Symposium
Dinner and conversation with professors Rosalyn LaPier and David Beck

6:30 - 8:00 pm 11/5/2025

ISR 94 A/B

Students can join professors Rosalyn LaPier and David Beck for dinner and conversation at ISR.
- Social/Informal Event
Materials Literature Seminar, "Dynamic Covalent Chemistry in Polymer Science to Improve Recyclability for Plastics", Elizabeth Vrana

3:30 am 11/6/2025

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
MIP Seminar: Dr. Tanveer Singh (Chung Lab), UIUC, "TBA"

11:00 am 11/6/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Tanveer Singh, Ph.D.
- Seminar/Symposium
Mahima Rana CHEM 575 Seminar: "Engineered Virus-Like Particles (VLPs) for Efficient Delivery of Gene Editors"

12:00 pm 11/6/2025

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
- Seminar/Symposium
Nicholas Korosec CHEM 575 Seminar: "Small-Molecule Based Cellular Reprogramming to Control Stem Cell Fate"

12:00 pm 11/6/2025

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Adrienne Antonson, Animal Sciences Department/UIUC -- "TBA"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 11/6/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
Destination Champaign - The Roots and Routes of Farm Aid

4:30 pm 11/6/2025

Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum

This talk will trace the journeys of the artists and activists who converged at Memorial Stadium in September 1985 to make the inaugural Farm Aid concert a landmark event in the history of popular music.
- Lecture
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Fethi Keles, "Unsettled and Resettled: Experiences of Bosnian Diaspora in the United States."

12:00 pm 11/7/2025

306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
- Lecture
"Using Operando NMR to Probe Lithium Metal Batteries", Professor Lauren Marbella, Columbia University in the City of New York

4:00 pm 11/7/2025

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium
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 11/10/2025

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Justin Notestein, Northwestern University, (co-hosts: Chris Rao, Paul Kenis)

2:00 pm 11/11/2025

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Inorganic Seminar, "Heavy Elements in Nature: From Waste Management to Precision Medicine", Professor Rebecca Abergel, University of California, Berkeley

3:30 pm 11/11/2025

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
The World of Webb, the Cosmic Circle of Life, and seeing through the Eyes of Einstein

3:45 - 4:45 pm 11/11/2025

134 Astronomy Building
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Student Seminar: Saika Hossain/Imlay Lab and Ezza Khan/Mera Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 11/11/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Ceremony/Service
TBD, Dr. Spencer Walse, Research Chemist, United States Department of Agriculture

12:00 pm 11/12/2025

W109 Turner Hall
- Seminar/Symposium
Colloquia: Dr. Laurel Smith-Doerr

12:00 pm 11/12/2025

3057 Lincoln Hall; 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL
- Lecture
CHEM 545 Practice Seminars

2:00 - 3:00 pm 3:00 pm 11/12/2025

Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
Celebrate New Books in Medieval Studies by Mukhtar Ali, Mauro Nobili, and Gian Piero Persiani

5:00 - 7:00 pm 11/12/2025

Levis Faculty Center, 210

Join us for a festive reception to celebrate three new books published this fall! The authors will each offer brief remarks and there will be an informal Q&A about the research and writing process. All are welcome!
- Festival/Celebration
MIP Seminar: Dr. Kendall Nettles, University of Florida, "Structure and function of steroid receptors revealed by chemical biology and machine learning approaches"

11:00 am 11/13/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Associate Professor, Department of Cancer Biology
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Jovan Kamcev, University of Michigan (host: Xiao Su)

2:00 pm 11/13/2025

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Materials Literature Seminar, TBD, Julia Koldobskiy

3:30 pm 11/13/2025

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Materials Literature Seminar, TBD, Sonam Rani

3:30 pm 11/13/2025

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Justin Lessler, University of North Carolina -- "Will there be a warning for the next pandemic?"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 11/13/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Brenda Bass (University of Utah) - "Discriminationg self and nonself dsRNA during antiviral defense"

12:00 pm 11/14/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: George Gasyna, "A Time for the Province: Palimpsests and Borders in Twentieth-Century Polish Literature""

12:00 pm 11/14/2025

Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB)
- Lecture
Literature Seminar, TBD, Maxwell Andren

4:00 pm 11/14/2025

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium
C.S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Gregory C. Fu, California Institute of Technology, "Title: TBD"

4:00 pm 11/17/2025

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Inorganic Literature Seminar, TBD, Jon Haidet

3:30 pm 11/18/2025

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Inorganic Literature Seminar, TBD, Cayden Jasek

3:30 pm 11/18/2025

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
C.S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Gregory C. Fu, California Institute of Technology: "Title: TBD"

4:00 pm 11/18/2025

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Student Seminar: Michael Bochert/Golding Lab and Lindsey Grady/Hatoum-Aslan

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 11/18/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Ting Wang / Washington University

12:00 pm 11/19/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Eliza Asani, UIUC, "Machine Learning for Thermodynamically-Consistent Equations of State"

2:00 - 2:30 pm 11/19/2025

CLSL B-102
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Omkar Chaudhari, UIUC, "Plasmon–Hydron Resonance Leads to Quantum Friction and Electron Cooling"

2:30 - 3:00 pm 11/19/2025

CLSL B-102
- Seminar/Symposium
MIP Seminar Student Seminar: Hongyu Zhao (Chung Lab) & Taylor McNeal (Raetzman Lab) "TBA"

11:00 am 11/20/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Aleksandra Vojvodic, University of Pennsylvania (host: Alex Mironenko)

2:00 pm 11/20/2025

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Materials Literature Seminar, TBD, Faith Kern

3:30 pm 11/20/2025

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Materials Literature Seminar, TBD, Justine You

3:30 pm 11/20/2025

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Jacob Allen, Nutritional Sciences/UIUC -- "TBA"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 11/20/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
Professor Brett P. Fors, Cornell University, "Development and Applications of Cationic and Radical Polymerization Processes"

4:00 pm 12/1/2025

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Inorganic Literature Seminar, TBD, Katy Knecht

3:30 pm 12/2/2025

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Inorganic Literature Seminar, TBD, Adrienne Kanihan

3:30 pm 12/2/2025

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Jose Luis Llera Munoz CHEM 535 Seminar

4:00 pm 12/2/2025

Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave, 116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Miko Miwa, UIUC, " Pushing the Limits of Liquid-State NMR with Dynamic Nuclear Polarization"

2:00 - 2:30 pm 12/3/2025

CLSL B-102
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Matthew Too, UIUC, "Quantum Chemical Calculations on Quantum Processors"

2:30 - 3:00 pm 12/3/2025

CLSL B-102
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Mark Blenner, University of Delaware (host: Chris Rao)

2:00 pm 12/4/2025

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Materials Literature Seminar, TBD, Chetan Prasad

3:30 pm 12/4/2025

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Materials Literature Seminar, TBD, Emma Robinson

3:30 pm 12/4/2025

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Helen Nguyen, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department/UIUC -- "TBA"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 12/4/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
HRI Campus Fellowship Applications Due

5:00 pm 12/5/2025

TBD

Campus Fellowship applications due
- Other
Prof. Christina (Tina) K. Kim, Princeton University, "Molecular Recorders for Activity-Dependent Protein Tagging in the Brain"

4:00 pm 12/8/2025

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Brandon DeKosky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (host: Huimin Zhao)

2:00 pm 12/9/2025

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Inorganic Literature Seminar, TBD, Andrew Norris

3:30 pm 12/9/2025

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Lynda Steen CHEM 535 Seminar

4:00 pm 12/9/2025

Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave, 116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium
Mock Interview Seminar, Dr. Matthew Boudreau, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, "Title:TBD"

4:00 pm 12/10/2025

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Materials Literature Seminar, TBD, Trent Papenmeier

3:30 pm 12/11/2025

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Materials Literature Seminar, TBD, Dilshan Kuttikanda Vidanelage

3:30 pm 12/11/2025

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: *ZOOM* Dr. Bas Van Steensel / Netherlands Cancer Institute

12:00 pm 12/17/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
ChBE 2025 Winter Convocation

10:00 - 11:00 am 12/20/2025

Lincoln Hall, 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801
- Ceremony/Service
ChBE 2025 Winter Convocation Reception

11:00 am - 1:00 pm 12/20/2025

Latzer Hall in the University of Illinois YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820
- Reception/Open House
Aldrich Lecture: Professor Ohyun Kwon, University of California, Los Angeles, "Title:TBD"

4:00 - 5:00 pm 1/26/2026

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Student Seminar: New Student Presentations

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 1/27/2026

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
Summer Bridge Program Info Session

12:00 - 1:30 pm 1/28/2026

The Humanities Without Walls Summer Bridge program supports PhD students in the humanities at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in exploring new career paths while making an impact in our community. Join us at this info session for more information about this opportunity!
- Informational
Microbiology Student Seminars: Brooke Ebner/Slauch Lab and Jessica Hertig/Imlay Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 2/3/2026

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
Prof. Lukas Muechler, Penn State, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm 2/4/2026

CLSL B-102
- Seminar/Symposium
Professor Chi P. Ting, Brandeis University, "title: TBD"

4:00 pm 2/9/2026

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium