The Department of Chemistry welcomes students, faculty, staff and the public to attend its seminar series. All seminars are held in the Kapp Lecture Hall, Room 1024, in the Mary E. Kapp Wing of Oliver Hall, 1001 W. Main St., unless otherwise noted. Host faculty are indicated in parenthesis.
Refreshments at 3:15 p.m.
Seminar at 3:30 p.m.
Spring 2009 seminars
Thursday, Jan. 29
Dr. Diane Bunce, Catholic University of America (Ruder)
Thursday, Feb. 12
Dr. Jamal Zweit, “Molecular Imaging in Cancer Biology and Therapeutics,” VCU Radiology (Carpenter)
Thursday, Feb. 19
Francis Macrina, Vice President for Research – VCU, To be announced
Thursday, Feb. 26
Dr. Nancy Xu, “Design of Photostable Nanoparticle Optics and Biosensors for Molecular Imaging of Single Living Cells,” Old Dominion, To be announced (Carpenter)
Thursday, March 5
Dr. Cassandra Fraser, “Light Emitting Boron Biomaterials for Imaging and Oxygen Sensing,” University of Virginia (Carpenter)
Thursday, March 26
Dr. Harry Dorn, “MetalloFullerenes,” Virginia Tech (Carpenter)
Wednesday, April 1
Henry McGee Lecture, Dr. Fred Hawthorne, Location: To be announced
Thursday, April 2
Mary Kapp Lecture: Dr. Barbara Imperiali, MIT (Gronert)
Friday, April 3
3rd Annual Chemical Biology Symposium, Location: To be announced
Thursday, April 9
Dr. Richard Crooks, University of Texas (Alvarez)
Thursday, April 16
Dr. Steve Weber, University of Pittsburgh, (Rutan
Thursday, April 23
Dr. William Ducker, “Fluid Flow in Confined Films: Lubrication Forces and Nanobubble Generation,” Virginia Tech (Luzar)
Tuesday, April 28
CHEM 498 honors students’ thesis presentations
Caitlyn Mulherin, “The Development of a new Anti-wear Compound for Automotive Gear Applications”
John Bajacan, “Natural Product-Based Anti-HIV Drug Discovery”
Richard Mullenberg, “Synthesis of Iron Oxide Thin Films by Spin-Spray Plating”
Spring 2009 student seminars
Thursday, Feb. 5
Abdel Rahman Soliman, Literature seminar, “Nanocomposite Electrocatalysts for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells.” (El-Shall)
Thursday, Feb. 19
Ryan Warren, Literature seminar (Carpenter)
Tuesday, March 3
Keyanna Conner, Literature seminar (Gronert)
Tuesday, March 17
Karl Jackson, Literature seminar (Carpenter)
Tuesday, March 24
Aaron Bates, Literature seminar (Farrell)
Tuesday, April 14
Tom Reich, Literature seminar (El-Kaderi)
Thursday, April 16
Bo Zhao, Literature seminar (Collinson)
Tuesday, April 28
Honors Students Thesis presentations
