Department of Chemistry/Physics/Astronomy

The Chemistry Seminar Series course, CHEM-C301, will be offered in Spring, 2012.  Please join us for these infromative lectures.

Thursday, February 9th, 1:00 - 1:50 pm, Marram Hall 119  - Dr. Michael Bukowski,  Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Penn State Altoona:  'Hydrogel-Based Heterogeneous Catalysts for Green Chemistry"

Tuesday, February 14 - 1:00-1:50 pm, Marram Hall 119 - Dr. John Beck, Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, University of Toledo:  "orthoMetallated Acetophenone Imines as Ligands for Transition and Main Group Metals and the Hydroamination of Allenes using a Palladium Allyl Triflate 3-Iminophosphine Precatalyst"

Thursday, February 16 - 1:00-1:50 pm, Marram Hall 119 - Dr. Lei Gao, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University:  "Organogold (I) and Azadipyrromethene Chemistry"

Thursday, February 23 - 1:00-1:50 pm, Marram Hall 119 - Dr. Daniel Kelly, Postdoctoral Researcher and Instructor, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley:  "Surface Chemistry:  Adapted Approaches to Synthesis and Theory"

Monday, February 27, noon - 1:00 pm,  Hawthorn Hall 221 - Dr. Libbie S.W. Pelter, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Purdue University, Calumet:  "Molecular Modeling and Visualization to Guide Catalyst Design"

Monday, March 19, noon - 1:00 pm, Hawthorn Hall 221 - Dr. Laura Anderson, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago;  "Rearrangements of O-Vindyl Oximes and Hydroxylamines:  New Chemoselective and Diastereoselective Bond Formations"

Monday, March 26, noon - 1:00 pm, Hawthorn Hall 221 - Dr. Nirmala Chandrasekharan,  Visiting Faculty,  Department of Chemistry/Physics/Astronomy,  Indiana University Northwest:  "Sensors for Physico-Chemical and Biomedical Applications"

Monday, April 9 and Monday April 16, noon - 1:00 pm, Hawthorn Hall 221 - Student presentations:  Tracy Czalbowski, Michael Hammond, Neal Shah, and Daniel Wadas