College of LAS: For Faculty & Staff

Cell-environment interactions during tissue maturation and disease

Professor, Dept. Biomedical Engineering

Tenure-stream faculty who wish to learn more about the Interseminars Initiative are encouraged to attend this Zoom info session.

Understanding the mechanisms of tissue regeneration and oncogenesis by imaging live mice

This public lecture will tell the story of over 230 million years of dinosaur evolution, from their humble origins to the evolution of giants to their (near) extinction 65 million years ago. Dr. Brusatte is a world expert on the evolution and diversification of dinosaurs, whose work is regularly featured in popular and scientific journals.

Regulatory logic of hair cell regeneration

An annual event bringing together faculty, staff, students, and community members to recognize people who have made a difference in academia. Each speaker will have five minutes to tell the story of the woman in his or her discipline that changed the field in important ways.

Assistant Professor, Dept. Biological Sciences

In this presentation, Dr. Alaina E. Roberts explores the actions and rhetoric of Black and Native people in Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma) in the nineteenth century.

Associate Professor, Dept. Pathology and Cell Biology

This talk will place trends in the modern era of vaccination in the context of issues related to the nuclear family, economy, health care, and federal politics. It will also discuss how shifting social values, environmental concerns, gender roles, the valuation of children, and the relationship between secular and religious values inform vaccination skepticism.

The Cancer Center at Illinois and Humanities Research Institute will be co-hosting speaker Olufunmilayo Olopade, Walter L. Pamer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics and founding director of the Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics and Global Health at the University of Chicago Medicine.

Professor, Dept. Internal Medicine and Molecular & Integrative Physiology

What does it mean to (de)classify something as derivative? What cultural values are at stake in the teleological designation of “derivative”? And, how can we apply pressure to those value judgements to better understand the intersections of Old English translation and settler colonialism in novel ways?