Chemistry Department Colloquium - Spring 2009

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Host
January 30 Prof. David MacMillan Princeton University "New Catalysis Concepts" Prof. Michael Calter
February 6 Prof. Jonathan Kenny Tufts University “New Developments in Analyzing Multidimensional Fluorescence Spectra"  
February 13 TBA TBA TBA  
February 20 Dr. Jodi Szarko '98 Northwestern University “Investigations of charge separation, charge recombination, and morphology in photovoltaic precursors.” Prof. Wallace Pringle
February 27 Prof. Wilfred A. van der Donk University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign “Biosynthesis of Lantibiotics, Polycyclic Thioether Antibiotics” Prof. Erika A. Taylor
March 27 Prof. Alison Keimowitz '97 Columbia University "Chemical Controls on Arsenic Mobility and Partitioning near Vineland, NJ" Prof. Stewart E. Novick
April 3 Prof. James Zimmerman Montclair State University “Is the tail wagging the dog? Evaluating the use of technology in teaching chemistry.” Prof. Erika A. Taylor
April 10 Prof. Tomas Hudlicky Brock University, Ontario "Chemoenzymatic synthesis of natural products: the story of morphine,
pancratistatin, and balanol"
Prof. Albert J. Fry
April 17 TBA TBA TBA  
April 24 Prof. John M. Tomich Kansas State University "Structure as a Function of Context: one transmembrane peptide sequence can form: a channel, a nanofibril, a micelle and a vesicle." Prof. Joseph L. Knee
May 1 Prof. Marc Walters New York University "Lanthanide complexes on Ag nanoparticles:Designing contrast agents for Magnetic Resonance Imaging." Prof. T.D. Westmoreland