Seminars

2008-09

Chemistry Senior Independent Study
Tentative Seminar Schedule

Fall 2008

2007-08

Chemistry Club Seminars

Mr. Howard Senkfor ('85)
PPG Industries
"Career Options with a B.A. in Chemistry; Job Opportunities at PPG"

Dr. Jovica Badjic
Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University
"Graduate School at The Ohio State University"

Departmental Semianrs

Dr. Bruce Armitage
Associate Professor of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University
"DNA Nanotechnology: Beyond the Genetic Material"

Dr. Susan Glassmeyer
U.S. EPA, Cincinnati, Ohio
"Emerging Contaminants in the Drinking Water Cycle"

Dr. Theodore Goodson
Professor of Chemistry, University of Michigan
"Scalable Enhanced Nonlinear Optical and Emission Properties in Organic and Metal Assemblies"

Dr. Anna Gudmundsdottier
Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati
"Photochemistry of Azides Mass Spectrometry for Protein:RNA Complexes"

Dr. Jeffrey Myers
Julianna Wilson Thompson Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry, The College of Wooster
"Membrane Protein Misfolding and Human Disease: Adventures in Hydrophobic Muckraking"

Dr. Hannah Tims
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Postdoctoral Researcher, The College of Wooster
"Spontaneous and Catalyzed Nucleosome Assessibility"

Dr. Chrys Wesdemiotis
Professor of Chemistry, University of Akron
"Mass Spectrometry Methods for the Characterization of New Synthetic Polymers and Materials"

Dr. David Williams
Harry G. Day Chair and Professor of Chemistry, Indiana University
"The Design and Synthesis of Marine Antitumor Natural Products"

2006-07

Chemistry Club Seminars

Mr. Andy Troutman
Troutman Vineyards
"The Chemistry Behind Wine-Making"

Dr. Francis Timmers
Dow Chemical Company
"Where Stuff Comes From: Industrial Chemistry and Dow"

Departmental Semianrs

Dr. Sarah Schmidtke
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, The College of Wooster
"Chemistry in a Crowd: Spectroscopic and Theoretical Investigations of Condensed Phase Systems"

Dr. M. Cather Simpson
Associate Professor of Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
"Dragons in Cancer Therapy: Vibrational Energy and Hemes"

Dr. Melissa Schultz
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, The College of Wooster
"Depression, Drugs, & Happy Fish: Determining the Environmental Fate and Transport of Antidepressant Pharmaceuticals by LC-ESI/MS/MS"

Dr. David Gottfried
Senior Research Scientist, Georgia Tech Research Institute
"Sensing at the Speed of Light"

Dr. Alison Williams
Department of Chemistry, Princeton University
"Ion Effects on the Physical Behavior of DNA"
Department Seminar and Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer

Dr. P. Lee Ferguson
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina
"Advances in the Application of High Performance Mass Spectrometry to Research in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry"

2005-06

Chemistry Club Seminars

Dr. James C. Stevens ('75)
Scientist, The Dow Chemical Company, Freeport, Texas
"High Throughput Discovery of New Highly Isospecific Olefin Polymerization Catalysts and New Polyolefins"

Christopher Gulgas ('01)
Graduate Student, The University of Cincinnati
"The Design of New Eu+3-Containing Macrocycles and Their Anion Recognition Capabilities"

Departmental Seminars

Professor Jovica D. Badjic
Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University
"Controlling Molecular Encapsulation: Design of Functional Molecular Devices"

Professor Max Funk
Department of Chemistry, University of Toledo "Activation, Inactivation and Inhibition of Lipoxygenase Catalysis"

Professor Carol Fierke
Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan "The Mechanism and Specificity of Protein Farnesyltransferase"

Professor Elizabeth Vierling
Department of Chemistry, University of Arizona
"Molecular Chaperones/Heat Shock Proteins"

Professor Nathan W. Bower ('73)
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Colorado College
"Forensic Archaeochemistry: Life Trajectories and Sources of Insanity in a Late 19th Century Mental Asylum"

2004-05

Chemistry Club Seminars

Professor Robert T. Kennedy
Hobart H. Willard Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Pharmacology, University of Michigan
"Life in the Fast Lane: High-Speed Electrophoresis as a Tool in Brain, Endocrine, and Biochemical Research"

Professor Geoffrey Coates
Professor and Associate Chair of Chemistry, Cornell University
"Synthetic Polymers inspired by Nature"

Departmental Seminars

Professor Pui-Kai Li
Associate Professor and Interim Chair; Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy; College of Pharmacy; The Ohio State University
"Development of Small Molecules with a Taxol Like Mode of Action"

Professor Vivien Yee
Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Case Western Reserve University
"How a 1.2 Million Dalton Multienzyme Complex Works: Structure-Function Studies of Transcarboxylase"

Professor John Yates
R. K. Mellon Professor of Chemistry and Physics; Director of the University Surface Science Center; Department of Chemistry; University of Pittsburgh
"Adsorption in Molecular-Size Test Tubes: Observation of the Surface Chemistry of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes"

Professor Malcolm Chisholm
Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University
"Routes of New Generation Polymers Employing Single-site Metal Alkoxide Catalysts. Polyesters, Polyethers and Polycarbonates from Renewable Rources.

Professor Sangram S. Sisodia ('77)
Thomas Reynolds Sr. Family Professor of Neurosciences; Director, Center for Molecular Neurobiology; Department of Neurobiology, Pharmacology and Physiology; Committee on Neurobiology; University of Chicago
"The Neurobiology of Alzheimer's Disease"

2003-04

Chemistry Club Seminars

Professor Richard H. Bromund
Department of Chemistry, The College of Wooster
"Microchip Capillary Electrophoresis: Yet Another use for Microscope Slides"

Professor Bern Kohler
Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University
"Gene Sunscreen: How DNA Copes with UV Light"

Professor Maryann Meador
Chemical Engineer, NASA John H. Glenn Research Center
"Aerospace Applications of Polymers"

John J. Okuley, Esq.
Mueller and Smith, LPA; Columbus, OH
"Controlling Trans Fatty Acids: Discovering the Plant FAD2 Gene Essential for Polyunsaturated Lipid Synthesis and the Courtroom Battle to Control its Biotechnology Applications."

Professor Kevin Weeks
Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"RNA and DNA 2'-amine Chemistry for Creating Biosensors and for Understanding the Origin of Life in Our Biosphere"

Departmental Seminars

Professor Dennis Curran
Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh
"Fluorous Techniques for Organic Synthesis: What Are They and What Can You Do With Them?"

Professor Patrick G. Hatcher
Director, Environmental Molecular Science Institute, Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University "Detecting Black Carbon in the Environment: An Analytical Challenge"

Premier Lecture Series

Professor Stephen J. Lippard
Head and Arthur Amos Noyes Professor, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Platinum Anticancer Drugs; How Might They Work?"
September 26, 2002

Professor R. Mark Wightman
W. R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Watching Neurotransmitters Communicate"
April 2, 2003

Professor Cynthia M. Friend
Harvard University, Theodore Williams Richards Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Professor of Materials Science, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Associate Director of Materials Research, Science and Engineering Center
"Manipulating Atoms and Molecules on Surfaces: From Microelectronic Materials to Environmental Chemistry"
May 1, 2003

Professor Carolyn R. Bertozzi
Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley
"Chemical Glycobiology"
February 19, 2004

Professor Maurice Brookhart
Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Olefin Polymerizations Catalyzed by Late Transition Metal Complexes"
November 10, 2005