CBE Calendar 2026
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department Links: Linktree, Quicklinks Page, Seminar Page, and the Google Calendar Page.
There is also the COE Events page. Click here for the Registrar's Academic Calendar page.
JANUARY 2026
Thursday, Jan 1 Holiday: New Year's Day
Monday, Jan 19 Holiday: Martin Luther King Day
Thursday, Jan 29 First day of classes
FEBRUARY
Tuesday, Feb 3 Community Forum - Tentative (Community Engagement & Belonging)
Wednesday, Feb 4 Last Day to Add/Drop
Tuesday, Feb. 10 Seminar: Stephen Lam, UMass Lowell, "TBD" (Maroudas)
Monday, Feb 16 Holiday: President's Day
Tuesday, Feb 17 Seminar: Rajamani P. Gounder, Purdue University, "Dynamic Interactions Between
Copper Active Sites in Zeolites During NOx Pollution Abatement Catalysis" (Fan)
Thursday, Feb 19 Monday class schedule at UMass
Tuesday, Feb 24 POSTPONED! Seminar: William A. Phillip, University of Notre Dame, "TBD" (Schiffman)
Thursday, Feb 26 Faculty Meeting
MARCH
Tuesday, March 3 Community Engagement & Belonging rorum
Thursday, March 5 Seminar: Shu Hu, Yale, “Where light meets heat: Photo-thermal catalysis at dynamic interfaces” (Chen)
Thursday, March 12 Faculty Meeting
Friday, Mar 13 Research Day
Friday, Mar 13 March Break begins after last class
Monday, Mar 23 Registration Advising Begins
Tues, March 31 Seminar: Elizabeth Biddinger, CUNY, "Investigating Electro-organic Reactions for Sustainable Applications " (Chen)
APRIL
Friday, April 3 Registration Advising Ends
Tuesday, April 7 Seminar: John Kitchin, Canegie Mellon, "Large machine-learned potentials for materials design with catalysis and energy applications" (Zagalskaya)
Tuesday, April 14 Exxon Mobil Seminar: Edward Maginn, Univ. of Notre Dame, "Keeping it Cool: Leveraging Molecular Simulation and Data-Driven
Methods for Next-Generation Refrigeration" (Bai and Chen)
Thursday, Apr 16 Faculty Meeting
Friday, Apr 17 Monday class schedule will be followed
Monday, Apr 20 Patriot's Day
Tuesday, April 21 Razi Epstein, Israel Institute of Technology, "Targeting solute-solute selectivity in membrane separation" (Schiffman)
Thursday, Apr 23 Faculty Meeting (Provost)
MAY
Tuesday, May 5 Senior Picture, 5:00 on Goessmann steps, 5:30 Senior Banquet in Amherst Room, Campus Center
Tuesday, May 5 Community Forum (Community Engagement & Belonging)
Friday, May 8 Last Day of Classes
Friday, May 8 12:00: Senior Critique, LGRT 201
Saturday, May 9 Commonwealth Honors College Celebration of Excellence ( 2pm, Mullins)
Monday, May 11 Finals begin
Friday, May 15 Finals end and Commencement Weekend begins - https://www.umass.edu/commencement/
9:00 am at the Mullins Center - Graduate Ceremony
5:00 pm at McGuirk Alumni Stadium - Undergraduate Ceremony
Saturday, May 16 Riccio College of Engineering Undergraduate Recogniation Center
1:00 pm at the Mullins Center
Tuesday, May 19 Quals
Thurs, May 21 Final grades due by Midnight
Tues, May 26 Faculty Retreat
JUNE
Friday, June 12 Industrial Advisory Board Meeting
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Updated: March 27, 2025
Amity Lee (lee@umass.edu)