Departmental Seminars 2007-2008

ESLC 046, 4-5 pm

Fall Semester 2007

DATE
SPEAKER
TITLE/Affiliation
HOST
Aug. 29, 2007
Sep. 5, 2007 Paulo Cesar Piquini
“BN nanotubes: defects and hydrogen adsorption” Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil
Tapas Kar
Sep. 12, 2007
Sep. 19, 2007
Sep. 26, 2007 Jason M. Shearer
"Nickel Superoxide Dismutase: How Nickel in an Unusual Biological Coordination Motif Contributes to Superoxide Detoxification." University of Nevada, Reno
 Lisa Berreau
Oct. 3, 2007 1-3:30 pm Widtsoe 330 Dave Barr Lance Seefeldt
Oct. 10, 2007
Oct. 17, 2007 Roy Parker
University of Arizona
 Joan Hevel
Oct. 24, 2007 Ron Cohen
"Unexpected (and rapid) chemistry at the forest-atmosphere interface" UC Berkeley
 Philip Silva
Oct. 31, 2007
Nov. 7, 2007
Nov. 14, 2007 Vickie DeRose Lance Seefeldt
Nov. 21, 2007
Thanksgiving Break - no seminar
Nov. 28, 2007 Norm Dovichi
The Olsen Seminar speaker from University of Washington
 Stephen Bialkowski
Dec. 5, 2007

Spring Semester 2008

DATE
SPEAKER
TITLE/Affiliation
HOST
Jan. 9, 2008
Jan. 16, 2008 Lai-Xi Wang Tom Chang
Jan. 23, 2008
Jan. 30, 2008
Feb. 6, 2008
Feb. 13, 2008
Feb. 20, 2008
 
Feb. 27, 2008 Sean Elliott
"Direct electrochemistry and sulfur-containing bonds:  three faces of sulfur"
Boston University
 Lance Seefedt/ Lisa Berreau
Mar. 5, 2008 George Bodner
"Eternal Verities: Or How To Make Your Students Hate You Less If Not Necessarily Love You More"
Purdue University
 Lance Seefeldt
Mar. 12, 2008
Mar. 19, 2008 Kuby Balagurunathan
"Chemical Biology of Proteoglycans". 
The University of Utah
 Tom Chang
Mar. 26, 2008 Craig Ogle
"Rapid Injection NMR Spectroscopy: Generation of the Elusive Copper (III) Intermediate"
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
 John Hubbard and Lisa Berreau
Apr. 2, 2008 Jane Richardson Sean Johnson
Apr. 9, 2008  
 
Apr. 16, 2008 Julius Jellinek
"Computational Electron Spectroscopy - A Powerful Tool for Exploration of Size, Structure, Charge State, and Composition Effects at the Nanoscale"
Argonne National Lab
 Alex Boldyrev
Apr. 23, 2008

Fall Semester 2008

DATE
SPEAKER
TITLE/Affiliation
HOST
Aug. 27 Daniel Nocera
"Powering the Planet by Artificial Photosynthesis"
MIT
 Lance Seefeldt
Sep. 3 Jeremy Smith
"One and Two Electron Transformations of High Valent Iron Imido and Nitrido Complexes"
New Mexico State University
 Lisa Berreau
Sep. 10
Sep. 11, Thursday, Widt 007 Sister Mary Virginia Orna, PhD
"Our Chemical Heritage: Its Impact on our Daily Lives"
The College of New Rochelle
 Chemistry Club
Sep. 17  
 
Sep. 24 Eileen K. Jaffe, PhD
"Quaternary structure, protein function, and drug discovery."
Fox Chase Cancer Center
 Lance Seefeldt
Oct. 1 Sarbajit Banerjee
"Building from the “Bottom Up”: Towards Nanomaterial Components for the Next Generation of Electronics."
The State University of New York Buffalo
 Tapas Kar
Oct. 8 Phil Silva
"Sources and Chemistry of Particle Pollution in Cache Valley Utah and Beyond"
USU
 Phil Silva
Oct. 15 Purchasing Department USU
Purchasing Cardholder
User’s Training
 DH, Steve Scheiner
Oct. 22 William Jorgensen

Richard Olsen Lecture Series

"Efficient Drug Lead Generation and Optimization"
Yale University
 Steve Scheiner
Oct. 29
Nov. 5 Carl J. Lovely
“Marine Natural Products as a Driving Force for the Development of New Synthetic Methods”
University of Texas at Arlington
 Tom Chang
Nov. 12 Matthew Redinbo
"The DNA Conjugation Machinery: Understanding and Inhibiting Antibiotic Resistance Propagation"
University of North Carolina
 Sean Johnson
Nov. 19 George Newkome
"Nanomolecular Architectures: The Application of Crystal Engineering to Metallodendritic Assembly”
University of Akron
 Jason Henderson, Frontier Scientific, Inc. & Tapas Kar
Nov. 26
Thanksgiving Break - no seminar
Dec. 3 Joanie Hevel
"Chem 4890 Undergraduate Seminars"
 Joanie Hevel

 

Spring 2007