Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering - Seminars and Events

Wednesday, April 1, 2026

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  Final Defense of Hsin-Lan "Nicole" Chiang "Machine Learning for Protein Engineering Across Data Modalities"

  10:00 am   03/06/2026

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Final Defense of Bidipta Ghosh, "DEFECT ENGINEERING IN COMPLEX METAL OXIDE ELECTROCATALYSTS FOR OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION"TBA

  3:00 pm   03/06/2026

  161 Noyes Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 2, 2026

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  Final Defense of Kavinraaj Ella Elangovan "Solution Processing of Organic Electronics and Predictive Modelling of Emergent Properties""

  11:00 am   03/06/2026

  2269 Beckman Institute

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 6, 2026

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  Final Defense of Neil Tran, "Elucidating Reactivity of Atomically Dispersed Catalysts via Multiscale Modeling: Active Sites, Reaction Mechanisms, and Fluid-Modulated Kinetics"

  8:00 - 10:00 am

  165 Noyes

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

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  Final Defense of Rajarshi Samajdar, CONFORMATION GOVERNS NANOSCALE ELECTRON TRANSPORT IN BIOMOLECULES AND SYNTHETIC ORGANICS

  1:00 - 3:00 pm

  217 Noyes

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 8, 2026

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  Final Defense of Haowei Long, Low-Temperature Anion Exchange Membrane Ammonia Electrolysis for Hydrogen Production

  9:00 am   03/06/2026

  117 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 9, 2026

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  Final Defense of Sonji Lamichhane, "SCREENING AND IMAGING TOOLS FOR DETECTING MAMMALIAN CELL DIFFERENTIATION AND ALGAL BACTERIAL INTERACTION"

  9:00 am   03/06/2026

  433 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Todd Squires, University of California, Santa Barbara, (Host: Prof. Baron Peters) "Driving Particles and Fluids Using Chemical Fluxes"

  2:00 pm

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 10, 2026

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  ChBE/OXE Undergraduate Research Symposium

  12:00 - 4:00 pm

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  CHBE Scholarship Awards Ceremony & Reception

  4:30 - 6:00 pm

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

  • Ceremony/Service

Thursday, April 16, 2026

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  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Styliana Avraamidou, University of Wisconsin (Host: Prof. Paul Kenis)

  2:00 pm

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 23, 2026

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  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Siddarth Krishna, University of Wisconsin (Host: Prof. Elizabeth Rogers) "Tuning the Dynamic Structure and Reactivity of Metal-Zeolites for Sustainable Catalytic Chemistries"

  2:00 pm

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 14, 2026

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  Final Defense of Haisu Kang, TBA

  10:00 am   03/06/2026

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Sunday, May 17, 2026

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  CHBE 2026 Spring Convocation Ceremony

  9:30   11:00 am

  Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Tryon Festival Theatre, 500 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  • Ceremony/Service
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  ChBE 2026 Spring Convocation Reception

  11:00   1:00 p.m.

  Illini Union - room ABC, 1401 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801

  • Reception/Open House