College of LAS: For Faculty & Staff

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Monday, October 13, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- Spurlock Museum of World Cultures, Knight Auditorium 600 S. Gregory Street, Urbana
Professor Rosalyn LaPier: Anti-trans Policies Jeopardize Indigenous Peoples’ Rights & Religious Expression

Professor Rosalyn LaPier will give a keynote talk titled "Anti-trans Policies Jeopardize Indigenous Peoples’ Rights & Religious Expression" at this year's events for Indigenous People's Day.
- Lecture

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Nitash Balsara, University of California, Berkeley "Movement of Polymer Molecules under Electric Fields and Relevance to Rechargeable Batteries" (host: Damien Guironnet)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- TBD
Inorganic Seminar, "Iron Carbenes for Olefin Metathesis", Professor Vlad Iluc, University of Notre Dame
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Laboratory of Physics, Room 141
ChBE/NPRE Presents-Prof. Joseph D. Smith, Missouri University of Science and Technology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave, 116 RAL
Kameron Wildeman CHEM 535 Seminar "Going Sub-Stoichiometric: The Evolution of Samarium(II) Catalysis"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Isabelle Lakis/Heath Lab and Megan Ringling/Blanke Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

- 5:00 pm
- Gregory Hall 311
Study Abroad in Prague Info Session

Join us for an info session about HIST 354 Study Abroad in Prague.
- Informational

Thursday, October 16, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar Student Seminar: Lucy Liu (Christian-Hinman Lab) "Investigating Seizure Susceptibility in an APP/PS1 Alzheimer's Disease Mouse Model using Repeated Low-Dose Kainic Acid Injection" & Gabe McKenna (Tsai Lab) "Characterizing the Mechanism and Neurodevelopmental Impacts of a de novo GRM7 Mutation"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
Johnny Bajko CHEM 575 Seminar "Expanding Proximity Proteomics: From nanometer-Scale Mapping to Multicellular Interfaces"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
Natalie King CHEM 575 Seminar "Engineering Diazotrophs: Harnessing Bacteria for Sustainable Nitrogen Supply in Cereal Crops"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
CBI-TG Seminar: Petra Levin, Washington University St. Louis -- Trainee Host: Rodrigo Arana Garrido/Mera Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 7:30 pm
- Illini Union, Room 210
Story and Place | Nadine Naber Lecture

Nadine Naber (Gender and Women’s Studies, Global Asian Studies, University of Illinois Chicago) will present the lecture “Radical Mothering as Prison Abolition Pedagogy in Chicago” as part of the Story & Place event series.
- Lecture

Friday, October 17, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Ian Wilson (The Scripps Research Institute) - "From antibodies to small molecules: structure-based design of novel therapeutic candidates to influenza virus"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- RAL 116
Literature Seminar, "Optimizing Ancient DNA Sequencing through Sample Preparation", Nina Wang
- Seminar/Symposium