Chemistry Department

Chemistry Department Seminars

Spring 2008

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

Venkat Gopalan, Professor of Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, "Biochemistry at OSU @ 2 PM", April 10, 2008 [area: biological chemistry] modify info

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

William Kennerly, Candidate, Chemical Physics, "Computational Chemical Physics @ 4PM", April 25, 2008 [area: physical chemistry] modify info

Miranda Beam, Organic Chemistry Candidate, University of Kentucky, "Pharmaceutical Sciences at UK", May 15, 2008 [area: organic chemistry] modify info

Fall 2007

Dr. Jens Meiler, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University, "Redesign Proteins into Novel Antibiotics - 3 PM", September 20, 2007 [area: biological chemistry] 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 [area: biological chemistry] 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

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 [area: organic chemistry] modify info

Spring 2007

Christopher Aubin, candidate, Columbia University, "How the Origin of Life Can Come From a Computer", February 8, 2007 [area: physical chemistry] modify info

John Hopkinson, Physics candidate, University of Toronto, "Magnetic Frustration @ 4PM SC106", February 15, 2007 [area: physical chemistry] modify info

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

Martin Veillette, Assistant Professor of Physics, Berea College, "Bose-Einstein Condensate Research and Theory", February 26, 2007 [area: physical chemistry] 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 [area: environmental chemistry] 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 [area: physical chemistry] modify info

Fall 2006

David Smithrud, Professor of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, "Host-Rotaxanes as Cellular Delivery Agents, 1:30 PM", September 21, 2006 [area: biological chemistry] 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 [area: physical chemistry] 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 [area: biological chemistry] 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 [area: inorganic chemistry] modify info

Spring 2006

Anes Kovacevic, Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Centre College, "Abnormal Carbene Ligands", January 18, 2006 [area: inorganic chemistry] 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 [area: inorganic chemistry] 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 [area: inorganic chemistry] modify info

Stephen Testa, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, "Biochemistry Topic (3PM Science 106)", February 16, 2006 [area: biological chemistry] 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 [area: physical chemistry] 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

Fall 2005

Paul Deck, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Virginia Institute of Technology, "Organometallic Ligand Research (3PM)", October 6, 2005 [area: inorganic chemistry] modify info

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

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

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

Spring 2005

M. Samy El-Shall, Professor of Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, "Physical Chemistry of Clusters", March 4, 2005 [area: physical chemistry] 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 [area: organic chemistry] modify info

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

Fall 2004

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 [area: analytical chemistry] modify info

Kenneth A. Goldsby, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, Florida State University, "Inorganic Research and FSU", November 4, 2004 [area: inorganic chemistry] modify info

Philip Grandinetti, Associate Professor of Analytical Chemistry, The Ohio State University, "Advances in Solid State NMR", November 16, 2004 [area: analytical chemistry] modify info

David Cliffel, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, "Analytical and Electrochemistry", December 2, 2004 [area: analytical chemistry] modify info

Spring 2004

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 [area: environmental chemistry] 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", February 26, 2004 [area: environmental chemistry] 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 [area: analytical chemistry] modify info

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

Fall 2003

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

Mark Lipton, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Purdue University, "Solid Phase Synthesis of Marine Natural Products, 5 PM Science Building", October 30, 2003 [area: organic chemistry] 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

Spring 2003

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

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

Fall 2002

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 [area: analytical chemistry] 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 [area: inorganic chemistry] 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 [area: physical chemistry] 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 [area: forensic chemistry] modify info

Spring 2002

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 [area: forensic chemistry] 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 [area: environmental chemistry] modify info

Fall 2001

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

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

Bill Heineman, Distinguished Research Professor, University of Cincinnati, "New Concepts for Chemical Sensors", November 28, 2001 [area: analytical chemistry] modify info

Spring 2001

Frank Shaw, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, Eastern Kentucky University, "Organo-metallic Cluster Compounds", March 1, 2001 [area: inorganic chemistry] modify info

Li Jing Sun, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, "DNA/Protein Binding Interactions", March 16, 2001 [area: biological chemistry] modify info

Fall 2000

Richard Elder, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, "Rhenium-Based Palliatives for the Treatment of Metastatic Cancer of the Bone", September 20, 2000 [area: inorganic chemistry] 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 [area: organic chemistry] modify info

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

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

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

Spring 2000

Rod Eisenberg, Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry, Eastern Kentucky University, "Catalytic Antibodies for Peptide Bond Cleavage", March 3, 2000 [area: biological chemistry] modify info

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

Fall 1999

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 [area: organic chemistry] modify info

Jon Parquette, Professor of Bioorganic Chemistry, Ohio State University, "Organic Reactions", November 30, 1999 [area: organic chemistry] modify info

Spring 1999

YingMei Yang, Chemistry Faculty Candidate, Purdue University, "DNA Studies involving HIV Virus", March 12, 1999 [area: biological chemistry] modify info

Stephanie Webb, Instructor of Chemistry, Wesleyan School, "MCB and DNA", March 17, 1999 [area: biological chemistry] modify info

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

Alan Schick, Associate Professor of Physical and Surface Chemistry, Eastern Kentucky University, "Interesting Phenomena at Surfaces", April 1, 1999 [area: physical chemistry] 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 [area: physical chemistry] modify info

Fall 1998

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 [area: biological chemistry] modify info

Richard Pagni, Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of Tennessee, "Photoinduced Electron Transfer - The New Organic Photochemistry", October 14, 1998 [area: analytical chemistry] 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 [area: inorganic chemistry] modify info

Harry Mark, Professor of Analytical Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, "Organic Conducting Polymers as Electrodes", November 12, 1998 [area: analytical chemistry] modify info

Spring 1998

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

Fall 1997

Dan Raftery, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Purdue University, "In Situ Studies of Envrionmental Catalysis", September 25, 1997 [area: analytical chemistry] modify info

Jared Butcher, Professor of Chemistry, Ohio University, "Alkali Fusion and Plastic Recycling", October 9, 1997 [area: environmental chemistry] modify info

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

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

Spring 1997

Michael Wempe, Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Rochester Medical College, "Short Term Research", January 22, 1997 [area: organic chemistry] modify info

Bernard A. Olsen, Senior Research Scientist, Analytical Development, Lilly Research Laboratories, Lafayette, IN, "Chemical Process Developmenet", April 25, 1997 [area: analytical chemistry] modify info

Richard A. Berglund, Research Scientist, Lillly Research Laboratories, Lafayette, IN, "Chemical Process Development", April 25, 1997 [area: analytical chemistry] modify info

Fall 1996

Dennis Clouthier, Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of Kentucky, "Laser Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Growth Intermediates", November 21, 1996 [area: physical chemistry] modify info

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

Spring 1996

Phil Grandinetti, Associate Professor, The Ohio State University, "Structure of Silicate Glasses with NMR", February 20, 1996 [area: analytical chemistry] modify info

Michael Wempe, Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Rochester Medical College, "New Approaches in Organic Chemistry", June 1, 1996 [area: organic chemistry] modify info

Fall 1995

Pete Spielmann, Professor, University of Kentucky, "Biochemistry of DNA and NMR", October 19, 1995 [area: biological chemistry] modify info

Keith Dunn, Associate Professor, Centre College, "IR Surface Spectroscopy", November 9, 1995 [area: physical chemistry] modify info

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

Spring 1995

Dave Wesley, Research Scientist, Ashland Oil, "NIR Gasoline Analysis", January 19, 1995 [area: organic chemistry] modify info

Mark McMills, Associate Professor, Ohio University, "Organic Synthesis", March 1, 1995 [area: organic chemistry] modify info

Celestia Pryor, Assistant Professor, University of the Pacific, "Bio-Organic Research", March 22, 1995 [area: organic chemistry] modify info

Fall 1994

Roald Hoffman, Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, Cornell University, "Chemical Beauty", October 13, 1994 [area: physical chemistry] modify info

Bill Heineman, Distinguished Research Professor, University of Cincinnati, "Bioanalytical Chemistry", October 28, 1994 [area: analytical chemistry] modify info

Kelsey Cook, Professor of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, "Mass Spectrometry", December 1, 1994 [area: analytical chemistry] modify info

Spring 1994

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

David Watt, Professor of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, "Organic Synthesis", March 30, 1994 [area: organic chemistry] modify info

Jim Lane, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Superior, "Catalytic Antibodies", May 5, 1994 [area: organic chemistry] modify info

Fall 1993

Judith Shelling, Technical Support, Schmeiser, Olsen and Watts, "Protein Structure and Characterization", November 5, 1993 [area: biological chemistry] modify info

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