Research Seminars @ Illinois
Tailored for undergraduate researchers, this calendar is a curated list of research seminars at the University of Illinois. Explore the diverse world of research and expand your knowledge through engaging sessions designed to inspire and enlighten.
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All Day 11/11/2025 - 11/30/2025Contest Description: Hidden throughout FGI's website are 5 special fall leaves, each one on a different page. Click on each leaf to reveal a new clue that will guide you to the next page. The timer starts the moment you find your first leaf. How to Win: The fastest three participants to successfully complete the hunt will win Amazon gift cards valued at $75, $50, and $
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2:00 - 3:00 pm 3:00 pm 11/12/2025Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium
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2:00 - 3:20 pm 11/12/2025317 David Kinley Hall
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3:00 - 5:00 pm 11/12/2025Main Library Room 346 — 1408 W. Gregory Dr, Urbana, IL 61801Gillen D’Arcy Wood will speak about his new book, "The Wake of HMS Challenger: How a Legendary Victorian Voyage Tells the Story of Our Oceans' Decline".
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4:00 - 5:00 pm 11/12/2025Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102 -
4:00 - 5:00 pm 11/12/2025Loomis Lab 141
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4:00 - 5:15 pm 11/12/2025Gregory Hall Room 223
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11:00 am 11/13/2025114 Transportation Building
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11:00 am 11/13/2025Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSLAssociate Professor, Department of Cancer Biology
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11:00 am 11/13/20252405 Siebel Center
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm 11/13/2025347 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Qinfeng Lyu (Boston College)
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 11/13/2025
A detailed quantification and comparative analysis of carbon emissions for three landfill final cover systems: (i) soil-only cover; (ii) soil-geosynthetic cover; and (iii) an engineered turf cover are presented. 1.0 PDH
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 11/13/2025University Archives Main Library Room 146
Please join us for the University Archives' monthly Women in Science Lecture Series, Nov. 13, from 12 -1 pm. School of Integrative Biology graduate student Vivian Cheng will discuss her research using genetics, ancient DNA, and historical archives to understand the effects of climate change and colonialism on narwhals.
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12:00 pm 11/13/2025612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
"Web Hosting" David Slater, CNRG Associate Director of High Performance Computing
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12:00 - 1:30 pm 11/13/2025Levis Faculty Center Room 208
In contrast to the moral panics about the ways that AI chatbots may be shrinking people’s social worlds by replacing human-to-human interaction, there is an incredible optimism in some corners that AI will radically open up the social world to include animals, enhancing or enabling new forms of interspecies communication.
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12:30 - 1:30 pm 11/13/2025428 Mumford Hall
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12:30 - 1:30 pm 11/13/2025428 Mumford Hall
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2:00 - 3:00 pm 11/13/2025ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
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2:00 - 3:20 pm 11/13/2025317 David Kinley Hall
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3:30 pm 11/13/2025Chem Annex 1024
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3:30 pm 11/13/2025106B1 Engineering Hall
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3:30 - 5:00 pm 11/13/2025230 Davenport Hall -
4:00 pm 11/13/2025Lucy Ellis, LCLB 1080
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4:00 pm 5:00 pm 11/13/2025Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:00 pm 11/13/20254100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
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4:00 - 5:00 pm 11/13/20253102 Siebel Center
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5:30 - 7:00 pm 11/13/2025Native American House (1206 W. Nevada St., Urbana)This gathering is intended to cultivate meaningful connections, foster a sense of community, and encourage intellectual exchange. It also serves as an inclusive environment where participants can share their academic journeys, engage in collaborative research discussions, and build supportive kinship networks within academia and beyond.
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10:00 - 10:50 am 11/14/20251310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801 -
10:30 am - 12:00 pm 11/14/2025TBD
The Critical Disciplinarity Collective convenes faculty of all ranks to reflect on disciplinarity – how it shapes our research + teaching, how we shape-shift to succeed in our disciplines, + how we might reshape our disciplines to be more welcoming to scholars + scholarship underrepresented in the academy. Lunch provided. Contact us to get involved!: azlans2@illinois.edu
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11:00 am 11/14/2025Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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11:00 - 11:50 am 11/14/2025Bevier Hall- Room 180FSHN Graduate Seminar Presenter: Patricio Lozano, PhD R&D Director Kerry Ingredients and Flavors Title: TBA
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Speaker Tina Andarge - Major/Minor Thresholds in Environmental Regulations (Joint with Will Wheeler)
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12:00 pm 11/14/2025Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL -
12:00 pm 11/14/2025Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB) -
12:00 pm 11/14/2025116 Roger Adams Lab
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1:00 pm 11/14/2025ESB 190
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1:30 - 3:00 pm 11/14/2025Hybrid: 306 Coble Hall & ZOOM -
1:30 - 3:00 pm 11/14/2025[Hybrid] 306 Coble Hall & Zoom
Please join us for a hybrid CEAPS Brown bag with two PhD student Conference Travel Grant recipients. Jiwon Oh (Institute of Communications Research) will be presenting her talk “Navigating Gendered Anthropomorphism in AI Ethics: The Case of Lee Luda in South Korea.”
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2:00 pm 11/14/20253269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).
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2:00 - 3:15 pm 11/14/20251304 Siebel Center
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2:00 - 3:20 pm 11/14/2025317 David Kinley Hall
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3:00 pm 11/14/2025W-109 Turner Hall -
3:00 pm 11/14/20252049 Natural History Building and via ZoomConnecting nineteenth-century mapping to twenty-first-century design pedagogy reframes cartography as a design practice that produces—not merely represents—social and spatial realities. Material intelligence emerges as both a research method and a pedagogical ethos for investigating how visual artifacts shape ways of seeing, knowing, and belonging in the world.
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4:00 pm 11/14/20254100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
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10:00 - 11:00 am 11/17/20253401 Siebel Center
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 11/17/2025428 Mumford Hall
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12:00 pm 11/17/2025Charles G. Miller Auditorium
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1:00 pm 11/17/2025Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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2:00 - 3:20 pm 11/17/2025317 David Kinley Hall
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3:30 pm 11/17/2025HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
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4:00 pm 11/17/20251310 Yeh Student Center, 205 N Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL
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4:00 - 5:00 pm 11/17/2025CIF 2035 -
5:30 - 7:00 pm 11/17/2025TBAThis program brings together scholars whose work centers on Indigenous perspectives and challenges the boundaries of conventional academic thought. Panelists will discuss how different fields have historically included or excluded Indigenous voices, and what it means to meaningfully engage with Indigenous knowledge in research, teaching, and community partnerships.
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6:00 - 8:00 pm 11/17/2025The Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., UrbanaIn this talk, award-winning classicist and bestselling author Dr. Emily Hauser explores the many different ways in which we can start to uncover the women of the ancient world. Hauser's writings range from deep analysis of Greek texts, to popular contemporary myth retellings, to innovative takes on history that mix fact and fiction to uncover new ways of knowing.
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11:00 - 11:50 am 11/18/2025190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Soonwon Choi, Assistant Professor of Physics, MIT
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12:00 pm 11/18/2025612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Iain Cheeseman, PhD Herman and Margaret Sokol Professor of Biology; Core Member, Whitehead Institute; Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Unlocking the Hidden Proteome”
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12:00 pm 11/18/20253269 Beckman Institute
Label-free Super-resolution Microvessel Imaging with Ultrasound
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3:30 pm 11/18/20252079 NHB -
3:30 pm 11/18/2025Chem Annex 1024
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3:30 pm 11/18/2025Chem Annex 1024
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3:45 - 4:45 pm 11/18/2025134 Astronomy Building -
4:00 pm 5:00 pm 11/18/2025Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:00 pm 11/18/20254100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
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4:00 - 4:50 pm 11/18/20251306 Everitt LaboratoryLectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
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5:15 pm 11/18/2025Levis Faculty Center 210
John Levi Barnard (English, UIUC) and Pollyanna Rhee (Landscape Architecture, UIUC) will deliver lectures on the topic of Environmental Humanities as the conclusion of the Fall 2025 Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series. Please check the MCT website for the latest location updates.
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5:15 - 6:45 pm 11/18/2025TBD
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10:00 am 11/19/2025419 RAL (Rose Room) -
11:00 am 11/19/2025Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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12:00 pm 11/19/2025Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
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12:00 pm 11/19/2025612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
"Why kill the Fluorescence? Let it Power your Raman" Seemesh Bhasker, IGB Fellow Carl R Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
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12:00 pm 11/19/2025Room 212 / Center for Children's Books, 501 E. Daniel St., School of Information Sciences
Dr. Patricia Kennon (Maynooth University), the general editor of The International Journal of Young Adult Literature, will be giving a brief lecture on Asexuality in Contemporary YA Literature at the Center for Children's Books. Come learn!
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12:00 pm 11/19/2025108 Coble Hall
Join the European Union Center for the next installment in its brown-bag series: "Europe and the World Today." This event is cosponsored by the Departments of Philosophy and Political Science, and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.
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12:00 - 12:50 pm 11/19/2025Everitt 1306
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12:00 - 12:50 pm 11/19/2025W109 - Turner Hall -
2:00 - 2:30 pm 11/19/2025CLSL B-102
