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
"Desperately Seeking Serotonin"

April 25 - Francisco Zaera (University of California, Riverside); Host: Farber
"The Route to Better Catalysts: From Surface Science to Nanotechnology"

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)