Chemistry Departmental Seminars
Chemistry Dept. Seminars - Spring 2025
January 24 - No Seminar
January 31 - Alison Fout (Texas A&M University) Host: Jackson
"Leveraging Ligand Design to Enable Challenging Reactions with Iron and Platinum"
February 21 - Adrian Figg (Virginia Tech University) Host: Teator
"Acrylic Copolymer Structures from Photoredox-Mediated Polymerizations"
February 28 - No Seminar
March 7 - No Seminar
GROW Weekend
March 14 - Heather Desaire (University of Kansas)
"From Health Disparities to International Fraud: New Insights from Analyzing Large Datasets "
March 21 - No Seminar
Spring Break
March 28 - No Seminar
Spring ACS - March 23 - 27, San Diego, CA
April 3 4:00 pm - Schowen Public Lecture: Kevan Shokat (University of California, San Francisco); Host: Hartley
"Why Is It So Hard To Create A Cancer Drug?"
Reception to follow in the Atrium, 2nd floor, Gray-Little Hall
April 4 3:00 pm - Schowen Scientific Lecture: Kevan Shokat (University of California, San Francisco); Host: Hartley
"Overcoming the Undruggable Nature of the Most Common Human Oncogene: K-Ras"
April 10 4:00 pm 1200 CDUP - Davidson Scientific Lecture: Melissa Hines (Cornell); Host: Farber
"New Eyes for Nanocatalysis: Molecular-scale Investigations of Nanocatalyst Chemistry"
April 11 - Davidson Public Lecture: Melissa Hines (Cornell); Host: Farber
"Finding Needles in Haystacks: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Reveals the Complex Reactivity of Surfaces"
April 18 - Anne Andrews (University of California, Los Angeles); Host: Johnson
April 25 - Francisco Zaera (University of California, Riverside); Host: Farber
May 2 - ACS Lecture: John Nuss(Ventyx Biosciences); Host: Elles
Presented by the Wakarusa Valley Section ACS
“The World Needs Chemists, Too: How Undergraduate Chemistry Catalyzed My Career in Biotech”
May 9 - No seminar (Stop Day)