The chemistry discipline hosts outside speakers from industry and academia along with senior chemistry/biochemistry majors during a year-long seminar series. The current schedule is shown below.
All seminars are Tuesday afternoons from 4 p.m.–5 p.m. in Science 1020
Spring 2013
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| January 15 | Chemistry Faculty | Presentation of Introduction to Research Projects |
| January 22 | Dan Seidenkranz | Detection and Reduction of Chlorinated Ethenes in Groundwater |
| January 29 | Lindsay Brown | MCM-41: An Exploration into Mesoporous Compound Synthesis and its Use in Drug-Delivery Systems |
| February 5 | Finhas Ogbazghi | Determination of pKa via Computational Methods |
| February 12 | Carolyn Thein | Recycling Carbon Dioxide into Fuels and Synthetic Hydrocarbons: Reduction of CO2 into Methanol and Dimethyl Ether |
| February 19 | Spencer Gardeen | The intricacies of cell specific triblock polymer drug delivery systems |
| February 26 | Jonathan Yasosky | Aromatics in Titan’s Thermosphere |
| March 5 | Brian Grunwald | Optodes and Electrodes: A comparative look at the chemistry behind dissolved oxygen sensors |
| March 12 | Denise Casemore | Hydrogen bonds and their importance in a new class of Brønstead acids |
| March 19 | Spring Break | no seminar |
| March 26 | Anthony Rooney | The “Bitter” Chemistry of Beer: An Investigation of a Newly Discovered Degradation Pathway for Iso-α-Acids in Beer |
| April 2 | Brady Stock | Alzhiemer’s: The Role of beta-Amyloid |
| April 9 | ACS meeting | no seminar |
| April 16 | Steven Just | TBA |
| April 23 | ||
| April 30 | Annual poster session | no seminar |