Chemistry Seminar - 4/10

This week, the Chemistry Department welcomes Dr. Eugene Mazzola from the University of Maryland. After meeting with faculty and students in the department, Dr. Mazzola will give a lecture on "Structural Elucidation of Saponins from Edible Fruits".

Please join us in Weyandt 240 at 3:30pm. Light refreshments will be served.

Undergraduate Biochemistry Seminar - 4/3

Two undergraduate speakers will present in this week's biochemistry seminar.

Ms. Galit Regev will present "The Study of Double-stranded RNA in Rhizoctonia Solani".

Ms. Aubree Webb will present "The Unique Pharmacology of Scorpion Toxin Lqh3".

Please join us at 2:30pm in Weyandt 127.

Graduate Seminars on 4/1, 4/3

On Wednesday, April 1, we will hold the first of two graduate student research seminars. Mr. Daniel Adu-Ampratwum will present the talk "Clusters, Superatoms, and Building Blocks of New Materials" in Weyandt 240 at 3:30pm.

On Friday, April 3, Ms. Bernice Opoku-Agyeman will present the talk "Mechanisms and Kinetics of the Wacker Process: A Quantum Mechanical Approach" in Weyandt 240 at 3:30pm.

For both seminars, light refreshments will be served.

Biochemistry Seminar - 3/27

On Friday, March 27, two biochemistry seniors will present their seminar topics.

Ms. Olivia McGovern will present "Targeted siRNA Nanoparticle Drug Administration in Primates: A New Hope In Cancer Treatment".

Ms. Caitlin Williamson will present "Biocatalytic Reduction of Alpha-chloro-beta-keto Esters".

Please join us at 2:30 in Weyandt 127.

Chemistry Seminar - 3/27

Please join us on Friday, March 27 for a research seminar by Mr. Theppawut Ayudhya (University of South Carolina) at 2:30pm in Weyandt 149.

The talk is titled "Synthesis of Highly Functional Poly(thiophene)s and Progress Towards Generating Solid State Chemosensors."

Chemistry Seminar - 3/25

On Wednesday, March 25 Mr. Justin Fair from the University of Connecticut will present the research seminar "Synthetically Useful Reactions of Organolithium Compounds and Predicted Chromatograms for Flash Column Chromatography".

Please join us at 2:30pm in Weyandt 127 for the seminar. Light refreshments will be served.

Chemistry Seminar - 3/20

The Department of Chemistry is pleased to host Mr. Alexander Poniatowski of the University of Pittsburgh on Friday, March 20.

Mr. Poniatowski will present the research seminar "Synthesis of Natural Products: Utilizing Radical Cations Toward Apicularen, and a Proposed Route to Myrioneurinol".

Please join us at a special time, 1:15pm in Weyandt 149 (note room change also).

Biochemistry Seminar - 3/13

This week's biochemistry seminar (Fri. Mar. 13) features Mr. Zack Wiley a senior biochemistry major at IUP, who will present the talk "Mimivirus and the Virophage: Redefining Life". The biochemistry seminar will be held in Weyandt 127 at 2:30pm.

Chemistry Seminar - 3/13

On Friday, March 13, the chemistry department will host Dr. Claire Tessier from the University of Akron. After meeting with faculty and students, Dr. Tessier will present the talk "Chlorophosphazenes, the Precursors to Polyphosphazenes. Are Superacids Undetected Participants in Their Chemistry?".

Please join us at 3:30 in Weyandt 240 for the presentation. Light refreshments will be served.

Chemistry Seminar - 2/20

On Friday, February 20, the Chemistry Department welcomes Dr. Matthew Luderer of the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg.

After visiting with faculty and students, Dr. Luderer will present the seminar "Asymmetric Cyclizations Controlled by a Stereogenic Lithium and Oxidations Using Oxoammonium Salts in Aqueous Media".

Please join us in Weyandt 240 at 3:30pm. Light refreshments will be served.

Chemistry Seminar - 2/6

On Friday, Feb. 6, the department will host Dr. Lillian Chong from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Chong will meet with faculty and students throughout the day and finish with a seminar titled "Atomistic Simulations of Natively Unfolded Proteins".

For more information on Dr. Chong's research, click here.

Please join us in Weyandt 240 at 3:30pm. Light refreshments will be served.

Chemistry Seminar - 12/5

Our final chemistry seminar for Fall 2008 will be presented this Friday at 3:30pm in Weyandt 240. Ms. Francisca Owusu Sekyere will present "Structure and Membrane Binding Analysis of Recombinant Mouse Growth Hormone Binding Protein".

Light refreshments will be served.

Chemistry Seminar - 11/21

Join us this week in Weyandt 240 at 3:30pm for our weekly chemistry seminar. This week's presenter will be Mr. Marc Ferrington of IUP, who will speak on "Experimental and Computational Investigation of the Heterogeneous Catalyzed Suzuki Cross-Coupling".

Light refreshments will be served.

Chemistry Seminar - 11/14

This week's seminar speaker will be Mr. Richard Hoff of the IUP Research Institute. His topic, "Extraction Methods and Analysis of Emerging Environmental Contaminants", will be presented at 3:30pm in Weyandt 240.

Light refreshments will be served.

Chemistry Seminar - 11/7

This week we welcome Dr. Nathaniel Rosi from the University of Pittsburgh as our seminar speaker. Dr. Rosi will meet with students and faculty during the day before giving his talk: "Design and Fabrication of New Materials Using Assortments of Biomolecular, Metal-Cluster, and Nanoparticle Building Blocks".

Please join us in Weyandt 240 at 3:30 pm. Light refreshments will be served.

For more information on Dr. Rosi's research, see his website.

Chemistry Seminar - 10/24

This week, we welcome Dr. Wiley Youngs from the University of Akron. He'll be speaking on "Delivery of Silver Antitumor and Antimicrobial Therapeutics Using Biodegradable Polymeric Nanoparticles and Microspheres".

Please join us at 3:30pm in Weyandt 240. Light refreshments will be served.

For more information on Dr. Youngs' research, see his webpage.

Chemistry Seminar - 10/17

This week's seminar speaker will be Dr. David McCamant, from the University of Rochester, who will speak on "Probing Photochemical Dynamics with Ultrafast Electronic and Vibrational Spectroscopy".

Please join us at 3:30 in Weyandt 240. Light refreshments will be served.

For more information on Dr. McCamant's research, see his website.

Chemistry Seminar - 10/10

This week's speaker will be Dr. Frank Bright from SUNY-Buffalo, who will discuss "Xerogels: A Platform for Chemical Sensors". For more information on Dr. Bright's research, visit http://www.chem.buffalo.edu/bright.php.

The chemistry seminar will be held in Weyandt 240 at 3:30pm on Friday, Oct. 10.

Light refreshments are provided.

Chemistry Seminar - 10/3

Join us this Friday, Oct. 3 in Weyandt 240 as four of our undergraduate students present some of their summer research.

Ms. Jessica Nichol will present "Photochromatic Azobenzene Dye Synthesis".
Ms. Elizabeth Paladin will present "Mycobacteriophage Isolation, Characterization, and Bioinformatics"
Mr. Andrew Kerr will present "Summer Lovin' with Uranium"
Ms. Beth Leverett will present"Progress in the Study of Quaternary Diamond-Like Semiconductors"

Seminar begins at 3:30. Light refreshments will be served.

Chemistry Seminar - 9/26

This week's guest speaker is Ms. Selar Sulaiman from IUP. She will present the talk "Hydrophobic Interaction Chromatography of Biopolymers with Diamond as a Stationary Phase".

Please join us in Weyandt 240 on Fri. 9/26 at 3:30pm. Light refreshments will be served.