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.
Fall 2008 seminars
Thursday, Jan. 17 – Dr. Frank Gupton, VCU Department of Chemistry and Department of Chemical and Life Science Engineering
To be announced. (Farrell)
Thursday, Feb. 7 – Dr. Angel Kaifer, University of Miami
“Cucurbit[n]urils: A New Class of Molecular Receptors” (Alvarez)
Thursday, Feb. 14 – Dr. Max Berkowitz, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“What can one Learn from Computer Simulations of Biomembranes” (Luzar)
Tuesday, Feb. 26 – Dr. Daniel Gezelter, Department of Chemistry, University of Notre Dame
“Rippled Membranes and a Novel Structure for Ice” (Bratko)
Thursday, Feb. 28 – Dr. Michael Doyle Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park
“The Magic of Dirhodium” (Gronert)
Thursday, March 6 – Dr. Andrei Vedernikov, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park
To be announced. (Sidorov)
Thursday, March 27 – KAPP LECTURE,
Dr. Mark Meyerhoff, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan
“Electrochemical Sensors in Medicine: Meeting Needs for the 21st Century” (Alvarez)
Thursday, April 3 – Dr. Brian R. James, Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia
To be announced. (Farrell)
Thursday, April 10 – Dr. Karl Scheidt, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University
To be announced. (Gronert)
Fall 2008 student seminars
All student seminars are hosted by VCU graduate students.
Tuesday, Jan. 15 – Amy Rue, “Graphene: New Discoveries in Carbon Chemistry.”
Thursday, Jan. 24 – Zafer Ugur, Literature seminar.
Tuesday, Feb. 19 – Debbie Campbell-Rance, Literature seminar.
Tuesday, March 25 – Fernando Luna-Vera, Literature seminar, “Building the green chemistry era from biodegradable polymer bricks.”
Tuesday, April 1 – Guoping Wang, Literature seminar.
Tuesday, April 8 – Qingyuan Liu, Literature seminar.
Tuesday, April 15 – Erin Carson, Literature seminar.
Tuesday, April 22 – Robert Everley, Research seminar.
Thursday, April 24 – Undergraduate Honors Thesis.
Tuesday, April 29 – Undergraduate Honors Thesis.
