Chemistry Graduate Seminar Series

Wednesday, April 7

GUEST SPEAKER
Dr. Randall Q. Snurr

Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

TOPIC

Metal-Organic Frameworks as Tunable Platforms for Gas Storage, Chemical Separations, and Catalysis

College of Science and Liberal Arts

Distinguished Speaker  Series

Friday, April 9

Organic Syntheses Seminar Speaker

Dr. Gary Molander
Hirschmann Makineni

Professor and Chair
Department of Chemistry 
University of Pennsylvania

TOPIC

Single Electron Processes Enabling Organic Synthesis

Wednesday, March 31

GUEST SPEAKER

Dr.  Arthur Winter

Department of Chemistry

Iowa State University

2415 Osborn Drive

1605 Gilman Hall

Ames, IA 

TOPIC

New Strategies to Achieve Photoactivation Using Visible Light

College of Science and Liberal Arts

Distinguished Speaker  Series

Friday, March 12

Organic Syntheses Seminar Speaker

Dr. Jeffrey S. Moore

Stanley O. Ikenberry 

Endowed Chair
Professor of Chemistry and
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor

The Beckman Institute for Advanced
Science and Technology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

TOPIC

Polymeric Materials for Lifecycle Control

GUEST SPEAKER

Wednesday, March 10

Dr. Pravas Deria

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

Southern Illinois University

TOPIC

Understanding Excited State Processes and Dynamics in Metal-Organic Frameworks

GUEST SPEAKER

Wednesday, February 24

Dr. Ellen M. Matson
Wilmot Assistant Professor

Department of Chemistry

University of Rochester

Rochester, NY

TOPIC

Development of metal-oxide clusters as charge carriers for nonaqueous redox flow batteries

GUEST SPEAKER

Wednesday, February 17

Dr. Elizabeth T. Papish

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

University of Alabama

Tuscaloosa, AL

TOPIC

The Big Impact of One Small Remote Group in Transition Metal Complexes for Carbon Dioxide Reduction Catalysis and Protic Anticancer Compounds

GUEST SPEAKER

Wednesday, February 3

Dr. Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

Department of Chemistry

Yale University

New Haven, CT

TOPIC

Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Catalysis and Energy Conversion

GUEST SPEAKER
Wednesday, January 27

GUEST SPEAKER

Dr. Bryan W. Brooks

Distinguished Professor

Department of Environmental Science

Director of Environmental Health Science

Baylor University

Waco, Texas

TOPIC

Identifying Strategic Research Needs for Environmental Quality and Environmental Public Health Practice