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.
To have your events added or removed from this calendar, please contact OUR at ugresearch@illinois.edu
Monday, November 10, 2025
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10:00 - 11:00 am3401 Siebel Center -
12:00 - 1:00 pm428 Mumford Hall
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1:00 - 1:50 pm157 Noyes Lab
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1:00 pmRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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3:30 pmHYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
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All Day
Contest 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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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Aashish Clerk, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Nicholas Wu, PhD Department of Biochemistry; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign “Deciphering antibody sequences”
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3:00 pm1005 Forbes Natural History Building, 1816 S Oak Street, Champaign -
3:45 - 4:45 pm134 Astronomy Building -
4:00 pm4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
5:15 pmLevis Faculty Center 210
Julian Go (Sociology, University of Chicago) will deliver a lecture on Postcolonial Theory as part of the Fall 2025 Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series. Please check the MCT website for the latest location updates. The Box folder of readings for each lecture is available here. For more information, including the password to access the readings, please contact the Unit.
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5:15 - 6:45 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
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All Day
Contest 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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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
"Mapping RNA Biology Across Dimension" Diptatanu Das, PhD Candidate Department of Biochemistry, School of Molecular & Cellular Biology
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12:00 - 1:00 pm428 Mumford Hall
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12:00 pmW109 Turner Hall
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2:00 - 3:00 pm 3:00 pmChemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium
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2:00 - 3:20 pm317 David Kinley Hall
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3:00 - 5:00 pmMain 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 - 5:15 pmGregory Hall Room 223
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4:00 - 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
Thursday, November 13, 2025
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All Day
Contest 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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11:00 am2405 Siebel Center
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11:00 am114 Transportation Building
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm347 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Qinfeng Lyu (Boston College)
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11:00 amCharles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSLAssociate Professor, Department of Cancer Biology
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12:00 - 1:30 pmLevis 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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12:00 - 1:00 pm
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 pm612 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 - 1:00 pmUniversity 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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12:30 - 1:30 pm428 Mumford Hall
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12:30 - 1:30 pm428 Mumford Hall
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2:00 - 3:00 pmICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
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2:00 - 3:20 pm317 David Kinley Hall
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3:30 - 5:00 pm230 Davenport Hall -
3:30 pm106B1 Engineering Hall
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4:00 pm4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
5:30 - 7:00 pmNative 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.
Friday, November 14, 2025
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All Day
Contest 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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10:00 - 10:50 am1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801 -
10:30 am - 12:00 pmTBD
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 - 11:50 amBevier Hall- Room 180FSHN Graduate Seminar Presenter | Patricio Lozano, PhD, MBA Global Technical Director Title | Masking of off-flavors in protein fortified beverages. Joining him will be Dr. Sichaya Sittipod, Senior Research Scientist, Taste Innovation Dr. Timothy Vazquez, RD & A Manager, Analytical Food and Flavor Chemistry Kerry Ingredients and Flavors
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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12:00 pm116 Roger Adams Lab
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL -
12:00 pmLucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB) -
Speaker Tina Andarge - Major/Minor Thresholds in Environmental Regulations (Joint with Will Wheeler)
12:00 - 1:00 pm428 Mumford Hall -
12:00 pm4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
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1:30 - 3:00 pm[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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1:30 - 3:00 pmHybrid: 306 Coble Hall & ZOOM -
2:00 - 3:20 pm317 David Kinley Hall
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2:00 - 3:15 pm1304 Siebel Center
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2:00 pm3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).
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3:00 pm2049 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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3:00 pmW-109 Turner Hall
Saturday, November 15, 2025
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All Day
Contest 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 $