Chemistry Department

Chemistry Department Seminars

[Lexington ACS Section] [University of Kentucky Chemistry Department]

Today is November 21, 2009
Our next speaker will be Erin Carlson from Indiana University speaking about Innovative Technologies for Natural Products Discovery at 3PM SC106 on December 3, 2009

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Speaker Distribution from 2009 to 1993
Physical Chemists: 26, Organic Chemists: 24, Inorganic Chemists: 18, Biological Chemists: 20,
Analytical Chemists: 20, Forensic Chemists: 3, Environmental Chemists: 5, Other Scientists: 5

Physical Chemists

Joe Zwanziger (email:jzwanzig@dal.ca), Professor of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, "Application of NMR to Borate Glasses", March 16, 1994 modify info

Roald Hoffman, Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, Cornell University, "Chemical Beauty", October 13, 1994 modify info

Keith Dunn, Associate Professor, Centre College, "IR Surface Spectroscopy", November 9, 1995 modify info

Dennis Clouthier, Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of Kentucky, "Laser Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Growth Intermediates", November 21, 1996 modify info

Joyce Guest, Program Officer, National Science Foundation, "Learning How Photochemical Reactions Occur: Laser Probes in Molecular Beams", November 6, 1997 modify info

Laren Tolbert, Professor of Chemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Solitons in a Box: The Organic Chemistry of Molecular Wires and Switches", December 4, 1997 modify info

Alan Schick, Associate Professor of Physical and Surface Chemistry, Eastern Kentucky University, "Interesting Phenomena at Surfaces", April 1, 1999 modify info

Alexander Pines (email:pines@cchem.berkeley.edu), Faculty Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Chancellor's Research Professor in Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, "Magnetic Moments", May 6, 1999 modify info

Martin Gruebele, Professor of Chemistry, Physics and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, "Femptosecond Laser Spectroscopy of Biomolecules", November 29, 2000 modify info

Ed Grant, Professor of Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics, Purdue University, "State Resolved Photoionization Dynamics of HCO and DCO", September 26, 2001 modify info

Bruce S. Ault (email:bruce.ault@uc.edu), Professor of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, "Oxidation Reactions of high valent transition metal compounds: the interplay of experiment and theory", October 30, 2002 modify info

M. Samy El-Shall, Professor of Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, "Physical Chemistry of Clusters", March 4, 2005 modify info

Dr. Gang Cao, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Kentucky, "Novel Electronic Oxides: Living on the Edge", December 2, 2005 modify info

Jay Baltisberger, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Berea College, "Improvements to the Solid State INADEQUATE Experiment at 2PM", December 8, 2005 modify info

Jacquelynne Milingo, Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Franklin & Marshall College, "Planetary Nebulae: Swiss Army Knives of the Galaxy", February 23, 2006 modify info

Gang Cao, Professor of Physics, University of Kentucky, "4d and 5d Transition Metal Oxides: A New Frontier of Materials Research @ 4PM", September 29, 2006 modify info

Christopher Aubin, candidate, Columbia University, "How the Origin of Life Can Come From a Computer", February 8, 2007 modify info

John Hopkinson, Physics candidate, University of Toronto, "Magnetic Frustration @ 4PM SC106", February 15, 2007 modify info

Martin Veillette, Assistant Professor of Physics, Berea College, "Bose-Einstein Condensate Research and Theory", February 26, 2007 modify info

Heather A. Rypkema, Professor of Chemistry, University of Louisville, "Kasha Violations in Fluorescent Molecules: evaluating relaxation pathways from higher excited states @ 1:30PM", May 3, 2007 modify info

Christopher Kulp, Professor of Physics, Eastern Kentucky University, "Using Information Theory to Identify Relationships between Physical Systems @ 4 PM", March 7, 2008 modify info

William Kennerly, Candidate, Chemical Physics, "Computational Chemical Physics @ 4PM", April 25, 2008 modify info

Terry Gullion, Professor of Chemistry, West Virginia University, "Development and application of high-resolution solid-state NMR to biomolecules and polymers at 1 PM in SC 106", October 23, 2008 modify info

Mike Duncan, Professor of Chemistry, University of Georgia, "Spectroscopy and Photochemistry of Metal-Containing Clusters at 1 PM in SC 106", November 20, 2008 modify info

Gary E. Douberly, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Georgia, "Liquid Helium Droplet Nanoreactors: Chemistry Near Absolute Zero at 3PM in SC106", April 9, 2009 modify info

Bob Compton, Zeigler Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics, University of Tennessee, "The Earth's Vital Signs (SC106 4PM)", November 20, 2009 modify info

Organic Chemists

David Watt, Professor of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, "Organic Synthesis", March 30, 1994 modify info

Jim Lane, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Superior, "Catalytic Antibodies", May 5, 1994 modify info

Dave Wesley, Research Scientist, Ashland Oil, "NIR Gasoline Analysis", January 19, 1995 modify info

Mark McMills, Associate Professor, Ohio University, "Organic Synthesis", March 1, 1995 modify info

Celestia Pryor, Assistant Professor, University of the Pacific, "Bio-Organic Research", March 22, 1995 modify info

Michael Wempe, Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Rochester Medical College, "New Approaches in Organic Chemistry", June 1, 1996 modify info

Michael Wempe, Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Rochester Medical College, "Short Term Research", January 22, 1997 modify info

Mark Dadmun, Associate Professor of Physical and Polymer Chemistry, University of Tennessee, "Improvement of Multiphase Polymer Systems Through Interfacial Modification", October 30, 1997 modify info

Charles M. Lukehart, Professor of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, "Preparation of Metal Alloy Nanocrystals for Single-Source Molecular Precursors: Catalysts for PEM or Direct Methanol Fuel Cells", November 9, 1999 modify info

Jon Parquette, Professor of Bioorganic Chemistry, Ohio State University, "Organic Reactions", November 30, 1999 modify info

James M. Tanko, Professor of Analytical Chemistry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, "t-Butoxyl Radical as a Model for Hydrogen Abstraction in Biological Systems", October 18, 2000 modify info

David Wright, Professor of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, "New Strategies for Fighting Malaria: Doing Good by Doing Well", October 10, 2001 modify info

Debra Bautista (email:Debra.Bautista@EKU.EDU), Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Eastern Kentucky University, "Computational Organic Chemistry", March 4, 2003 modify info

Mark Lipton, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Purdue University, "Solid Phase Synthesis of Marine Natural Products, 5 PM Science Building", October 30, 2003 modify info

Adam Smith (email:adam.smith@wpafb.af.mil), National Research Council Research Associate, Air Force Research Lab, Wright-Patterson AFB OH, "Synthesis of Optoelectronic Materials for Organic Solar Cells (4pm in room 101)", April 4, 2005 modify info

Mark Cunningham (email:mcunning@atlm.edu), Professor of Chemistry, Atlanta Metropolitan College, "Anti-HIV Furamidine Prodrugs (2PM room 101)", April 7, 2005 modify info

Dr. Folami T. Ladipo, Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, "The design of catalysts for ethylene trimerization and olefin polymerization - 1:30 PM", November 15, 2007 modify info

Hasan Palandoken, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Western Kentucky University, "Organic Molecular Drug Targets for Brain Cancer Research", April 24, 2008 modify info

Miranda Beam, Organic Chemistry Candidate, University of Kentucky, "Pharmaceutical Sciences at UK", May 15, 2008 modify info

Mark D. Watson, Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky, "Organic Electronic Materials Chemistry: Structure-property studies, synthesis, and devices in room 106 at 1 PM", October 2, 2008 modify info

Aaron Amick, Post-doctoral fellow, University of California, Irvine, ""Methodology Development for Use in the Synthesis of Non-Natural and Natural Products" in SC106 at 4PM", December 2, 2008 modify info

Mary Robert Garrett, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Centenary College, "Organic synthesis in room 106 at 3 PM", December 4, 2008 modify info

Jonathan Scheerer, Post-doctoral fellow, Johns Hopkins University, "Organic synthesis in room 106 at 3PM", December 9, 2008 modify info

Erin Carlson, Assistant Professor, Indiana University, "Innovative Technologies for Natural Products Discovery at 3PM SC106", December 3, 2009 modify info

Inorganic Chemists

Dorothy Gibson, Professor, University of Louisville, "Carbon Dioxide-Bridged Bimetallic Complexes: Models for Catalytic Intermediates", December 5, 1996 modify info

Claudia Turro, Professor of Chemistry, Ohio State University, "Metal Complexes that Bind DNA: Intermolecular Forces and Excited State Reactivity", October 16, 1997 modify info

Tom Otieno, Professor of Chemistry, Eastern Kentucky University, "Synthesis and Characterization of Copper (I) and Vanadium (IV) Thiocyanate Complexes", February 26, 1998 modify info

Paul Deck, Associate Professor of Chemistry , Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis, Virginia Institute of Technology, "Electronic Effects in Metallocene Catalyzed Olefin Polymerization", October 29, 1998 modify info

David A. Atwood, Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, "Fundamental and Applied Aspects of Group 13 Chelate Complexes", March 10, 2000 modify info

Richard Elder, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, "Rhenium-Based Palliatives for the Treatment of Metastatic Cancer of the Bone", September 20, 2000 modify info

Frank Shaw, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, Eastern Kentucky University, "Organo-metallic Cluster Compounds", March 1, 2001 modify info

Lori Watson (email:lwatson@indiana.edu), Graduate Student in laboratory of Kenneth Caulton (IUB), Indiana University, "What my hungry molecule ate for lunch: structure and reactivity of unsaturated Ru complexes", October 18, 2002 modify info

Stephen M. Holmes (email:smholm2@pop.uky.edu), Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, "Inorganic coordination polymers", February 18, 2003 modify info

Kenneth A. Goldsby, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, Florida State University, "Inorganic Research and FSU", November 4, 2004 modify info

John Thurston (email:john-thurston@uiowa.edu), Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa, Iowa City, "From Molecules to Materials: Towards Single-Source Molecular Precursors For Advanced Oxides", April 11, 2005 modify info

Paul Deck, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Virginia Institute of Technology, "Organometallic Ligand Research (3PM)", October 6, 2005 modify info

P. Andrew Evan, Professor of Chemistry, Indiana University, "New Organometallic Cross-Coupling Reactions for Target Directed Synthesis (3PM)", October 27, 2005 modify info

Anes Kovacevic, Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Centre College, "Abnormal Carbene Ligands", January 18, 2006 modify info

Melissa Golden, Dreyfus Postdoctoral Teaching/Research Assistant, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, "Fabrication of a Chemically Modified Electrode using a Chiral Ruthenium Bis(oxazoline) Complex", February 6, 2006 modify info

Douglas Mulford, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Pepperdine University, "Fabrication of a Chemically Modified Electrode Using a Chiral Ruthenium Bis(oxazoline) Complex, 4PM Science 106", February 9, 2006 modify info

Timothy P. Hanusa, Professor of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, "The Allyl Group Grows Up: Chemical Consequences of a Sterically Enhanced Ligand @ 1:30 PM", November 16, 2006 modify info

Craig A. Grapperhaus, Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Louisville, "Redox Regulated Binding of Ethylene to a Metal Thiolate at 5 PM in SC106", March 19, 2009 modify info

Biological Chemists

Duane Mill, Professor of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Memphis, "TBA-Pharmacology", January 1, 1902 modify info

Judith Shelling, Technical Support, Schmeiser, Olsen and Watts, "Protein Structure and Characterization", November 5, 1993 modify info

Pete Spielmann, Professor, University of Kentucky, "Biochemistry of DNA and NMR", October 19, 1995 modify info

Brian Volkman, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Medical College of Wisconsin, "NMR Structural Studies of Iron-Sulfur Proteins: Human Ferredoxin and Clostridium Pasteurianum Rubredoxin", September 17, 1998 modify info

YingMei Yang, Chemistry Faculty Candidate, Purdue University, "DNA Studies involving HIV Virus", March 12, 1999 modify info

Stephanie Webb, Instructor of Chemistry, Wesleyan School, "MCB and DNA", March 17, 1999 modify info

Matthew Saderholm (email:matthew_saderholm@berea.edu), Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Berea College, "Protein Structure", March 18, 1999 modify info

Rod Eisenberg, Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry, Eastern Kentucky University, "Catalytic Antibodies for Peptide Bond Cleavage", March 3, 2000 modify info

Dr. Paul Bummer (email:pbumm01@pop.uky.edu), Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Kentucky, "Introduction to Pharmaceutical Sciences", November 7, 2000 modify info

James P. Reilly, Professor of Physical and Analytical Chemistry, Indiana University, "MALDI Mass Spectrometery of Single Cells", November 15, 2000 modify info

Li Jing Sun, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, "DNA/Protein Binding Interactions", March 16, 2001 modify info

Darrin Smith, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Eastern Kentucky University, "Surface Induced Dissociation: Surface Characterization and Peptide Sequencing (3PM)", April 8, 2004 modify info

Stephen Testa, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, "Biochemistry Topic (3PM Science 106)", February 16, 2006 modify info

David Smithrud, Professor of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, "Host-Rotaxanes as Cellular Delivery Agents, 1:30 PM", September 21, 2006 modify info

Jurgen Rohr, Professor of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, "Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Studies on Biosynthetic Key Enzymes - Perspectives for Drug Discovery @ 1:30", October 19, 2006 modify info

Dr. Jens Meiler, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University, "Redesign Proteins into Novel Antibiotics - 3 PM", September 20, 2007 modify info

Dr. Sheila David, Professor, University of California - Davis, "Dare to Repair: From Chemistry to Cancer - Time TBA, part of Berea College Undergraduate Research Symposium", October 19, 2007 modify info

Venkat Gopalan, Professor of Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, "Biochemistry at OSU @ 2 PM", April 10, 2008 modify info

Mark Knecht, Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky, "Bio-inspired Nanomaterials at 5 PM in SC 106", February 19, 2009 modify info

Dr. Kimberly Nixon, Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky, "plenary lecture for the Berea Undergraduate Research Symposium at 5 PM", October 23, 2009 modify info

Analytical Chemists

Bill Heineman, Distinguished Research Professor, University of Cincinnati, "Bioanalytical Chemistry", October 28, 1994 modify info

Kelsey Cook, Professor of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, "Mass Spectrometry", December 1, 1994 modify info

Phil Grandinetti, Associate Professor, The Ohio State University, "Structure of Silicate Glasses with NMR", February 20, 1996 modify info

Bernard A. Olsen, Senior Research Scientist, Analytical Development, Lilly Research Laboratories, Lafayette, IN, "Chemical Process Developmenet", April 25, 1997 modify info

Richard A. Berglund, Research Scientist, Lillly Research Laboratories, Lafayette, IN, "Chemical Process Development", April 25, 1997 modify info

Dan Raftery, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Purdue University, "In Situ Studies of Envrionmental Catalysis", September 25, 1997 modify info

Richard Pagni, Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of Tennessee, "Photoinduced Electron Transfer - The New Organic Photochemistry", October 14, 1998 modify info

Harry Mark, Professor of Analytical Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, "Organic Conducting Polymers as Electrodes", November 12, 1998 modify info

Bill Heineman, Distinguished Research Professor, University of Cincinnati, "New Concepts for Chemical Sensors", November 28, 2001 modify info

Doug Gilman (email:sdgilman@utk.edu), Professor of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, "Electroosmosis: Dynamics of Chemically Generated Flow in Microchip Devices for Chemical Analysis", September 16, 2002 modify info

John Fenn, Professor of Chemistry and 2002 Nobel Laureate, Virginia Commonwealth University, "Electrospray Mass Spectrometry, general public lecture, 8PM Phelps-Stokes", September 30, 2003 modify info

John Fenn, Professor of Chemistry and 2002 Nobel Laureate, Virginia Commonwealth University, "Electrospray Mass Spectrometry for Scientists, 4 PM Science Building", October 1, 2003 modify info

Harry Finklea, Professor and Chair of Chemistry, West Virginia University, "Kinetics of Proton Coupled Electron Transfer at Monolayer-coated Electrodes (Wednesday 5 PM)", October 15, 2003 modify info

David Igo (email:david.h.igo@gsk.com), Strategic Technologies Team Manager, Chemical Development at GlaxoSmithKline, "Crystal-Form Screening of Drug Substances", March 18, 2004 modify info

Kelsey Cook, Professor of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, "Non-Covalent Interactions and Electrospray Mass Spectrometry: Alzheimer's Fibril Glue, and Caveats (5PM in conjunction with undergraduate research poster session)", October 29, 2004 modify info

Philip Grandinetti, Associate Professor of Analytical Chemistry, The Ohio State University, "Advances in Solid State NMR", November 16, 2004 modify info

David Cliffel, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, "Analytical and Electrochemistry", December 2, 2004 modify info

Mark Lovell, Associate Professor of Chemistry Analytical and Biological Chemistry, University of Kentucky, "Plenary Talk for the Annual Berea Research Symposium at 5 PM in room 106", October 17, 2008 modify info

Sam Li, Professor of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, "Nanoscale analytical techniques for environmental and biomedical applications @ 3PM in SC106", May 7, 2009 modify info

Dr. Frank Zamborini, Assistant Professor, University of Louisville, "Electrochemical and Optical Properties of Metal Nanostructures as a Function of Size and Chemical Environment, 3PM in SC106", October 15, 2009 modify info

Forensic Chemists

George R. Lester, Professor, Center for Catalysis and Surface Science and Northwestern University, "Gasoline/Electric Hybrid Vehicles: Interim or Long-term Technology Solution", May 6, 2002 modify info

Andre Sommer (email:SOMMERAJ@MUOhio.Edu), Director, Molecular Microspectroscopy Laboratory and Associate Professor of Chemistry, Miami University of Ohio, "Molecular Microspectroscopy for Industrial Forensics", November 13, 2002 modify info

D.W. Everson, Toxicologist, Kentucky Crime Lab, "General Services of the Crime Lab and Toxicology Work, 1:30", February 22, 2007 modify info

Environmental Chemists

Jared Butcher, Professor of Chemistry, Ohio University, "Alkali Fusion and Plastic Recycling", October 9, 1997 modify info

George R. Lester, Professor, Center for Catalysis and Surface Science and Northwestern University, "Does Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Cause Greenhouse Warming? or Vice Versa?", May 7, 2002 modify info

Terry Collins (email:tc1u@andrew.cmu.edu), Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Green Oxidation Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, "Green Chemistry (Science Seminar)", February 25, 2004 modify info

Phillip S. Stevens, Professor of Chemistry, Indiana University, "Oh where oh where is OH? Measuring the elusive hydroxyl radical in the atmosphere @ 1:30 PM ", April 19, 2007 modify info

Other Scientists

Kate Tuminski, Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy, Eastern Kentucky University, "Occupational Therapy, Tapestry 2001", November 16, 1995 modify info

Anne-Frances Miller, Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, "Biomolecular NMR Research at UK, 2 PM Science Building", November 14, 2003 modify info

Tracy Hodge, Associate Professor of Physics, Salem State College, "Anatomy of a Starburst. Infrared Observations of the M33 HII Regions", February 27, 2006 modify info

Matthew Fleenor, Graduate Student in Astrophysics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "The Landscape of Cosmological Structures: from Prism Light to Galaxy Superclusters", March 2, 2006 modify info

Dr. Kenneth Kolb, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, Bradley University (ACS National Tour Speaker), "Glass, It's Many Facets - 5:30 PM", October 25, 2007 modify info

Add a new speaker

Anyone interested in finding out more about these speakers or Berea College in general might contact Dr. Baltisberger via email at jay_baltisberger@berea.edu