College of LAS Events

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Sunday, May 5, 2024

- All Day
2024 CU Tango Music Festival
- Performance

Monday, May 6, 2024

- 2:00 pm
- 217 Noyes Laboratory
Chelsea Swartchick, Final Defense, UIUC, "Rational Design of Activity-based Sensing Probes to Reveal the Impact of Inflammation on Human Disease Progression"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 7, 2024

- 12:00 - 1:30 pm
- Levis Faculty Center 424
Organize & Analyze: Social Movements Reading Group
- Lecture
- 1:00 pm
- 2049 Natural History Building
GGIS Colloquium | Impacts of Retrogressive Thaw Slump Expansion on Vegetation Succession across Northern Alaska
- Ceremony/Service
- 2:00 pm
- 161 Noyes Laboratory
David Ryffel, Final Defense, UIUC, "Total Synthesis of Bioactive Natural Products: Darobactin A and Nimbolide"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
2024 T.S. Piper Inorganic Thesis Award: Joe Lastowski, "Challenging Long-Held Views in Chemistry: Surprising New Discoveries about Chemical Bonds" and Daniel Hu, "Development of Organometallic Nickel Complexes with Oxygenase-type Reactivity" (I)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student/Postdoc Seminar: Molly Crowder/Blanke Lab and Sharik Khan/Kuzminov Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 6:00 pm
NRC Conflicts and Change: Book Club for Educators
- Other

Wednesday, May 8, 2024

- 1:00 pm
- 274 Materials Science building
FINAL DEFENSE, Paola Baldaguez Medina "Harnessing Redox Electro-Sorbents and Reactive Separations for Efficient PFAS Remediation in Water Systems""
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:30 pm
- RAL 171
FINAL DEFENSE: Mahima Unnikrishnan, "Implications of Nanoparticle-Protein Interactions on Protein Assembly and Conformation". Advisors: Professor Martin Gruebele and Professor Catherine Murphy
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
2024 Flygare Memorial Lecture: Professor Theodore Goodson III, University of Michigan, "Nonlinear Optical and Time-Resolved Properties of Novel Organic Materials"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 9, 2024

- 12:00 pm
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Auditorium (Room 1122)
Founding Director Dr. Larry Smarr Returns to NCSA
- Lecture
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- University Archives Main Library Room 146
Women in Science Lecture Series: Sana Saboowala
- Lecture
- 1:00 - 4:30 pm
Capstone Presentations - May 9 Afternoon Session
- Conference/Workshop
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
2024 Klemperer Award for Outstanding Materials Chemistry Ph.D. Thesis, Qi Hua and Falon Christina Kalutantirige (M)
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 10, 2024

- 9:00 am
- 1092 Lincoln Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, David Potts, "Engineering Intrapore Environments to Tune Rates and Selectivities for Liquid Phase Catalysis over Zeolites"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am - 1:30 pm
Capstone Presentations - May 10 Morning Session
- Conference/Workshop
- 11:00 am
- Noyes Lab 163
FINAL DEFENSE: Saman Fatima "Design and Engineering of Conformationally Switchable Artificial Metalloproteins (swArMs)", Advisor: Professor Lisa Olshansky
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:30 pm
- 161 Noyes Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Ohsung Kwon, "Influence of Solvation and Microenvironment on Alkene Epoxidation with Hydrogen Peroxide within Titanium Silicates"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- Room 3083 Natural History Building (SESE Core)
GGIS Class of 2023-24 Reception & Award Ceremony
- Ceremony/Service
- 3:30 - 4:30 pm
- CLSL B102
Alumni Lecture: Dr. H.N. Cheng (PhD, ’74, Gutowsky), USDA Agricultural Research Service - Plastic Pollution: How to Tackle this Problem

Alumni Lectures feature Chemistry at Illinois alumni who have, with the foundation of their chemistry studies at Illinois, made a meaningful impact in their chosen field.
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
- I-Hotel "Technology" Room
Annual Awards Ceremony
- Ceremony/Service
- 5:00 pm
- Crystal Lake Park Boathouse
TIS Year-End Party!
- Ceremony/Service

Saturday, May 11, 2024

- 8:30 am
Commencement
- Ceremony/Service
- 1:30 pm
- Smith Memorial Hall
2024 History Convocation
- Ceremony/Service
- 4:30 pm
- Foellinger Auditorium 709 S. Mathews Ave. Urbana, IL 61801
SLCL Convocation
- Ceremony/Service
- 5:30 pm
- Virginia Theater, Champaign, IL
Spring Convocation

Students graduating with degrees in the following units are invited to participate: African American Studies Anthropology Asian American Studies Gender and Women’s Studies Latina/Latino Studies Sociology This ceremony is int
- Ceremony/Service