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Visiting Speaker Seminar Programs

Seminars for Spring 2024 will be a combination of in person and virtual ( via zoom) presentations. Our seminars are open to the public.  For the zoom link, e-mail or call Professor Bauer or Professor Stine whose contact info is on the department website

Normally Monday Chemistry Colloquium presentations are held on Mondays at 4:00 - 4:50 pm in Benton Hall (BH) 103. Seminars are  attended by faculty, postdocs, and graduate students from all divisions, as well as undergraduate chemistry majors typically in their final semester.

Spring 2024

Date

Speaker/Title

Host
Jan 22
Steven Struck, UMSL Environmental Health and Safety,
"Safety"

 Stine
Jan 29  
Steven Struck, UMSL Environmental Health and Safety,
"Safety"

 Stine
Feb 5  
Professor Megan Connor (Samford University) Zoom
“Advancing gender-based equity within undergraduate chemistry education”		 McDowell
Feb 12


Prof. Mohtashim Shamsi (SIU-Carbondale)
"TBA"

 Stine
Feb 19

Prof Kirk Manfredi (University of Northern Iowa)
"Natural Products, Endophytes, Caves, Insects, And Antimicrobial Compounds” (online seminar)

  Bauer
Feb 26

Prof. Jian Lin ( University of Missouri-Columbia)
"Rationally Designed Shape Memory Polymers via 3D/4D Printing”

 Xu

Mar 4

Professor Jie Dong (SiU-Edwardsville)
“Biofuel and Biomaterial Production from Renewable Feedstock through Microbial Fermentation Process”.

 Bauer

Mar 11

 Dr. Ajith Karunarathne  (Saint Louis University)
“Light Sheds Light on Cellular Chemistry”
. 		  Stine
Mar 18

Professor Mohtashim Shamsi (SIU-Carbondale)
"Flexible Sensors:Laser-Induced Electrodes on Plastic to detect Neurodegenerative Biomarker in Cerebrospinal Fluid".

  Stine
Mar 25 Spring Break  Host
Apr 1 Professor Antonio Facchetti (Georgia Tech)
"Organic semiconductor materials for optoelectronic applications. Chemistry, processing and device engineering"		   Xu
Apr 8

 Professor John Gladysz  (Texas A&M University)
 “Bending and Extending sp Carbon Chains: (C≡C)26 Units that Span two Metals, and Beyond”

   Bauer
Apr 15 Professor Zhonghua Peng (UM-Kansas City)
"Development of Functional Materials for Renewable Energy, Critical Metal Recovery and Biomedical Applications".

    Xu
Apr 22
Professor Shiao-Wei Kuo (National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan)
"Construction Archimedean Tiling Patterns Based on Soft Materials from Block Copolymers and Covalent Organic Frameworks"

    Xu
Apr 29


Professor Robert Stockland, (Bucknell University), PhD UMSL 1999. 37th Annual Distinguished Alumni Lecturer. .
"Embrace Your Chemical Creativity".

    Bauer/Stine

 An archive of previous department colloquia is given here