College of LAS: For Faculty & Staff

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- 7:30 pm 9/28/2023 - 10/2/2023
- University of Illinois Stock Pavilion
CETACEAN (The Whale)
- Performance
- 4:00 pm 10/2/2023
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor Bartosz A. Grzybowski, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, "Synthesis Planning, Mechanism Prediction and Discovery of New Reactions Using Computers"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 pm 10/3/2023
- 134 Astronomy
"What in the Galaxy is Scattering Cosmic Rays? "
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 p.m. 10/3/2023
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Postdoc Seminar: Glen Cronan/Kuzminov Lab and Elizabeth Rowland/Kieffer Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 7:00 pm 10/3/2023
- Gregory Hall 205
Research Talk with Professor John Randolph
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm 10/4/2023
- 3057 Lincoln Hall
Academic Outsider by Associate Professor Dr. Victoria Reyes
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm 10/4/2023
- CLSL B102
Professor Valeria Molinero, University of Utah, "The Most Potent Snow Makers"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm 5:00 10/4/2023
- GH 213
Faculty Meeting
- Meeting
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm 10/4/2023
- 307 GH
History Study Abroad in Prague Info Session
- Meeting
- 5:00 - 6:00 pm 10/4/2023
- Caffe Bene
Kouventes over coffee organized by Maria Hadjipolycarpou
- Social/Informal Event
- 11:00 am 10/5/2023
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
C. Ladd Prosser Endowed Lecture, Dr. James and Andrea Simmons, Brown University "Neural Displays for Perception in Echolocating Bats"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:30 am - 1:00 pm 10/5/2023
- 1020 Lincoln Hall
History Department NCFDD Group
- Meeting
- 12:30 pm 10/5/2023
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC New Directions Lecture: Eli Feiman, Public Opinion in Wartime Russia: Business as Usual or Crisis of Confidence
- Lecture
- 2:00 pm 10/5/2023
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Valeria Molinero, University of Utah, "Towards the Elucidation of the Mechanisms of Synthesis of Zeolites Using Data Science and Molecular Simulations" (Peters)
- Ceremony/Service
- 2:00 pm 10/5/2023
- Chem Annex 1024
Dow Alum Seminar Student Q&A session with Dr. Tim Moneypenny
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm 10/5/2023
- Chem Annex 1024
Dr.Tim Moneypenny, Dow Alum Seminar, "Industrial Synthesis of Emulsion Polymers" (M)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 10/5/2023
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor Betsy Parkinson, Purdue University, "Utilizing Biocatalysis and Synthetic Chemistry to Access New Natural Products"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 10/5/2023
- Charles D. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Vineet Menachery, University of Texas Medical Branch -- "Using reverse genetics to probe SARS-CoV-2 infection and pathogenesis"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 7:00 - 9:15 pm 10/5/2023
- 319 GH
History Movie Night: Chungking Express - Undergraduate Program
- Meeting
- 7:30 pm 10/5/2023
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
Community Speaker Series | Responding to and Addressing Community Needs: An Evening with Champaign-Urbana Practitioners

Join us for an evening of conversation about inequities in health care, incarceration, and addiction recovery—all through a local lens. Hear from our panelists about their organizations, the challenges they face, and how they're working to positively impact community health and individual well-being.
- Other
- 12:00 pm 10/6/2023
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. Yubin Zhou, Texas A&M University, "Optogenetic engineering of calcium channels and immune cells with tailored function"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 10/6/2023
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Ms. Morgan Conrady, UIUC Title: Forensic Analysis of Gunshot Residue
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 10/6/2023
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Ms. Kristin Martin, UIUC Title: Acoustofluidics for Bioanalytical Applications
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 6:00 pm 10/8/2023
- Spurlock
Ken Burns’ American Buffalo: A Conversation about Indigenous Environmental History at UIUC
- Film Screening
- 12:00 pm 10/9/2023
- B102 CLSL (Charles Miller Auditorium)
Biochemistry-IGB Seminar: Venki Ramakrishnan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology; Cambridge, UK, "Initiation of Translation by the Ribosome"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 10/9/2023
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Lilly Lecture: Dr. Adriana Jemison, "Process Improvements for the Highly Convergent Synthesis of a Complex Small Molecule API"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 10/9/2023
Interseminars Initiative | Graduate Fellowship Information Session
- Informational
- 5:00 pm 10/9/2023
- 116 RAL
Lilly Lecture: Professor Hagan Bayley, University of Oxford, "Engineered Nanopores: from Gene Sequencing to Organ Repair"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm 10/9/2023
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Lilly Lecture: Professor Hagan Bayley, University of Oxford, "Gene Sequencing to Organ Repair"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm 10/10/2023
- Chem Annex 1024
Professor Shabnam Hematian, University of North Carolina - Greensboro, "Unconventional Approaches for Mediating Redox Reactions" (I)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 pm 10/10/2023
- 134 Astronomy
"Planet Formation Insights from Debris Disk Dust and Gas"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 10/11/2023
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar: Dr. Ankur Saxena, UAB Heersink School of Medicine

"From Neurons to Neuroblastoma and Back Again: Stem Cell and Cancer Differentiation In Vivo"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 10/11/2023
Job Talks
- Meeting
- 12:00 pm 10/11/2023
Eastern Europe at the Crossroads: A Sociological Perspective on Change and Continuity by Assistant Professor Dr. Dorina Rosca
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm 10/11/2023
- Lucy Ellis
Medieval Studies Colloquium starring Dr. Brett Kaufman
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am 10/12/2023
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Grads: Ingrid Possa Paranhos (Sweeney Lab) "Neuronanatomical dissection of the MC3R circuitry mediating energy rheostasis" and Gargi Palashikar (Tsai Lab) "Study of TrkB Signaling in the Mouse Model of Fragile X Syndrome”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:30 am - 1:00 pm 10/12/2023
- 1020 Lincoln Hall
History Department NCFDD Group
- Meeting
- 4:00 pm 10/12/2023
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor Luke Lavis, Janelia Research Campus, HHMI, "Designing Brighter Dyes for Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy and Beyond"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 7:30 pm 10/12/2023
- Spurlock Museum
Ada Limón: Working in the Service of Poetry | Reading and Conversation
- Other
- 12:00 pm 10/13/2023
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. Ron Kopito, Stanford University, "Regulation of the ribosome-translocon interaction by the ubiquitin like protein UFM1”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 2:00 pm 10/13/2023
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 108
Panel and Book Discussion | Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of U.S. Whaling
- Other
- 2:00 pm 10/13/2023
- Lucy Ellis
AIA Nadia Borowski Lecture with Lisa J. Lucero
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm 10/13/2023
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Mr. Conrad Milton, UIUC Title: Live Cell Imaging with Electron Microscopy
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 10/13/2023
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Mr. Blake Mirman, UIUC Title: Analysis of pigments in visual relics using Raman and XRF spectroscopy
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 6:00 pm 10/13/2023
- Levis Faculty Center, 1st Floor Lobby
HRI Graduate Student Social
- Social/Informal Event
- 5:00 pm 10/13/2023
Deadline: HRI Director’s Fellows Applications

Deadline to apply for the HRI Director's Fellows program. Applications due by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, October 13.
- Other
- 4:00 pm 10/16/2023
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Joshua Berger, "Catalytic Formation of Ammonia from Dinitrogen"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm 10/17/2023
- Chem Annex 1024
Professor Jose Goicoechea, Indiana University, "The Cyaphide Ion: A New Building Block for Chemical Synthesis", (I)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 pm 10/17/2023
- 134 Astronomy
"Demystifying the Dark Side of the Universe Using Secondary Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 10/18/2023
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 424
Graduate Fellowship Info Session
- Informational
- 12:00 pm 10/18/2023
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar: Dr. Hee-Sun Han, UIUC Department of Chemistry

Nano- and Micro-technologies for data-driven systems biology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 10/18/2023
Job Talks
- Meeting
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm 10/18/2023
- CLSL B-102
Thomas Cowell, University of Illionis Urbana-Champaign, "Double Emulsion Droplet Microfluidics and High-Throughput Measurements of Single Viruses"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 5:00 pm 10/18/2023
- GH 213
Visiting Professor Lecture
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 - 6:00 pm 10/18/2023
- Caffe Bene
Kouventes over coffee organized by Maria Hadjipolycarpou
- Social/Informal Event
- 7:30 pm 10/18/2023
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 300
Interseminars | Damon Locks and Tara Aisha Willis: "Step step step: improvisation, sound, and movement"
- Performance
- 11:00 am 10/19/2023
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Grads: Kenneth Samuel (Yu Lab) "Function of astrocyte calcium signaling in the medial amygdala neuronal circuits and social behaviors" and Xiangning Song (Bagchi Lab) "Extracellular vesicles media cell-cell communication during implantation"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:30 am - 1:00 pm 10/19/2023
- 1020 Lincoln Hall
History Department NCFDD Group
- Meeting
- 3:30 pm 10/19/2023
- Chem Annex 1024
Professor Phillip J. Milner, Cornell University, "Simplifying Synthesis at the Interface of Organic and Materials Chemistry" (M)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 10/19/2023
- Charles D. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Shannon Sirk, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign -- "Living therapeutics: Engineering cargo and chassis"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 10/19/2023
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Emma Simmons, "Total Synthesis and Biological Activity of "Supernatural" Products"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 9:00 am - 4:00 pm 10/20/2023
- CLSL Atrium A&B (9-11am), Levis Center (12-3:30pm)
CHBE Graduate Research Symposium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 10/20/2023
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Robert Collis, "Unorthodox Visions: Magnetic Somnambulism, Clairvoyance and Prophecy among the Petersburg Nobility, 1820s-1830s"
- Lecture
- 1:00 pm 10/20/2023
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
"The Realities of a Practicing Data Scientist", Alix Schmidt, Sr Data Scientist Dow Chemical, Core R&D Information Research
- Informational
- 1:00 - 4:00 pm 10/20/2023
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
Graduate Co-Working Session
- Other
- 4:00 pm 10/20/2023
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Ms. Erin Nicholas, UIUC Title: Cancer Diagnostics using MALDI-MS
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 10/20/2023
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Ms. Micah Robinson, UIUC Title: 3D printed sorption material for the expansion of analytical capacity
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:30 pm 10/20/2023
- 3rd Floor, Levis Faculty Center
CHBE Alumni and Graduate Awards Ceremony
- Ceremony/Service
- 7:00 pm 10/20/2023
- TBD
Greek Film Series — Eftychia
- Film Screening
- 12:30 - 2:30 pm 10/21/2023
- Grange Grove, Memorial Stadium
CHBE Homecoming Tailgate
- Sporting Event
- 4:00 pm 10/23/2023
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Alice Y. Ting, Stanford University, "Engineering Proteins to Map and Manipulate Cells"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm 10/24/2023
- N/A-seminar Cancelled
CANCELLED: CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Joao Soares, University of Alberta (host: Peters)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 pm 10/24/2023
- 134 Astronomy
"Science with XRISM: A New Window on the X-ray Universe"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 p.m. 10/24/2023
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Postdoc Seminar: Jayadevi Chandrashekhar/Whitaker IGB Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 10/25/2023
Job Talks
- Meeting
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm 10/25/2023
- CLSL B102
Professor Pierre-Nicholas Roy, University of Waterloo, "Simulating Quantum Critical Molecular Assemblies: From Path Integrals to Matrix Product States"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 5:00 pm 10/25/2023
- 300
Undergraduate Studies Committee meeting
- Meeting
- 3:30 - 5:00 pm 5:00 pm 10/25/2023
- 100 Gergory Hall
Associate Professor Lecture, Claudia Brosseder
- Lecture
- 11:00 am 10/26/2023
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Dr. Qiaojie Xiong, Stony Brook University, "Role of the auditory striatum in decision-making and learning"

Associate Professor, Dept. Neurobiology & Behavior at Stony Brook
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:30 am - 1:00 pm 10/26/2023
- 1020 Lincoln Hall
History Department NCFDD Group
- Meeting
- 12:00 pm 10/26/2023
- 163 Noyes Laboratory
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Xiaopeng Liu, UIUC, "Controllable and Precise Drug Delivery with Bioorthogonal Chemistry""
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm 10/26/2023
- 171 Roger Adams Laboratory
Mr. Alex Schrader, UIUC Final Defense: Establishment and implementation of Multiplexed Error Robust Fluorescence in situ Hybridization to study spatial mRNA expression in cells and tissues
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 10/26/2023
- Charles D. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Stephanie Shames, Michigan State University -- "Novel role for immunoproteasomes in cell-autonomous host defense against intracellular bacterial pathogens"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 10/26/2023
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC New Directions Lecture: Julia Vaingurt, "The Weakling, the Genius, the Bomb, and the Globe: Andrei Bitov on Writing Amidst Nuclear Ecologies"
- Lecture
- All Day 10/27/2023 - 10/28/2023
- Lucy Ellis
Tacitus Workshop/Conference
- Conference/Workshop
- 12:00 pm 10/27/2023
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Tan Chee Wah, National University of Singapore, "Serology in infectious disease investigation"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 10/27/2023
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Mr. Armando Santiago Carboney, UIUC Title: DNA Origami as Molecular Rulers for in-situ AFM Calibration
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am 10/30/2023
- CLSL A446
FINAL DEFENSE, Alyssa DeLucia, UIUC, ""Modeling Metallo-Oxidoreductase Active Site Dynamics with Bis(μ-hydroxo)DiCobalt Complexes", Advisor: Lisa Olshansky
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm 10/30/2023
- CLSL B124
FINAL DEFENSE, Thomas Cowell, "Double Emulsion Droplet Microfluidics and High-throughput Measurements of Single Viruses ", Advisor: Professor Hee Sun Han
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 10/30/2023
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Rachel Schaaf, "O3: Three Recent Advances in Ozonolysis"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 7:30 pm 10/30/2023
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Leading the Way for Energy Sovereignty for Native America: Chief Henry Red Cloud, Oglala Lakota Nation, Pine Ridge, S.D.
- Lecture
- 10:30 am 10/31/2023
- 171 Roger Adams Laboratory
Michael Lee, UIUC, Final Defense, "Development of Chemical Tools for Biomolecule Detection and Targeted Therapeutics for Precision Medicine"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 pm 10/31/2023
- 134 Astronomy
"Quasars and the Intergalactic Medium at Cosmic Dawn"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 10/31/2023
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Nick Wade, "Photoredox Mediated Oxidative Radical/Polar Crossover"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 p.m. 10/31/2023
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Thesis Defense: Rouhallah Ramezanifard/Slauch Lab
- Seminar/Symposium