Visiting Speaker Seminar Programs

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


Spring 2026
Date Location Speaker Host

Jan 19

B 103

No Colloquium: Martin Luther King Day “Chemistry TA Training.”

 

Jan 26

B 103

 Steven Struck, Safety Seminar, UMSL Environmental Health & Safety. "Chemistry TA Training".

 Bauer

Feb 2

B 103

 Steven Struck, Safety Seminar, UMSL Environmental Health & Safety. "Chemistry TA Training".

 Bauer

Feb 9

 

 TBA

 

Feb 16

B 103

TBA “Chemistry TA Training.”

   

Feb 23

B 103

 Third Annual David L. Garin Science Policy Lecture: Dr. Max O'Connor, Science and Technology Policy Fellow, Colorado Capitol,   “From the Lab to the State Capitol: Transitioning to Science Policy as a Chemistry PhD”. Click here to register.

  Garin

Mar. 2

B 103

Dr. Paul Jelliss , Department of Chemistry, St. Louis University, "Inorganic Nanocomposite Materials As Contrast Agents for Fine Vascular Micro-CT Imaging and As Possible Therapeutic Delivery Agents”.

  Holmes

Mar. 9

B 103

Dr. Kelly Powderly,  Department of Chemistry, Washington University, " Alternative Synthetic Pathways to Quantum Materials". 

 Stine

Mar 16

 B 103

Dr. Rachel Whittaker, Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Innovation Center, UMSL, “Utilization of Advanced Manufacturing Techniques to Re-Shore Generic Pharmaceutical Production”.

 Bauer

Mar. 23

No Colloquium – Spring Break

 

Mar. 30

 B 103

Dr. Chris Cooper , McKelvy School of Engineering, Washington University

 Xu

Apr. 6

B 103

Dr. John Kiernicki, (Drury University), 

 Bauer

Apr. 13

B 103


Dr. Ramesh Giri , (Penn State University),  “ Transition Metal and Photoredox Catalyzed Alkene Difunctionalization Reactions“.

  Sharma

Apr. 20

B 103

Dr. Premila Samuel Russell, (Saint Louis University),

 Wong

Apr. 27

B 103

Dr. Vladimir Birman, (Washington University)

 Bauer

May 4.

  

Mr. Richard Hoyt, BA 1976, 39 th Annual Distinguished Alumni Lecture.