Our seminars take place every Monday afternoon during the academic year. This is our opportunity to promote other professionals in our field, network, and expose our students to cutting-edge research. The seminars are open to everyone.
Fall 2024
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
Title
08/19/2024
Jeffrey Bell
Washington State University
Functional 3D Printing and Magnetoelectrochemistry for Electroanalysis
08/26/2024
Mario Wriedt
UT Dallas
Crystal Engineering of Programmable Sponges for Energy, Environmental and Medicinal Applications
09/09/2024
Keith Searles
University of Florida
Leveraging Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Chemistry in the Catalytic Conversion of Hydrocarbon Substrates
10/07/2024
Abhijit Date
University of Arizona
Nano-scale Ionic Liquids (NAILs) to Augment the Delivery of Drugs with Poor Solubility and/or Permeability
10/14/2024
Michel Sassi
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
The Physical and Chemical Consequences of Radioactive Transmutation
10/21/2024
Rana Rais
Johns Hopkins University
Enhancing Pharmacokinetics of nSMase2 Inhibitors via Prodrugs and Dendrimer Nanoparticle Delivery Systems
11/04/2024
Wanlu Li
Univ. of CA San Diego (UCSD)
Lanthanide/Actinide-Doped Boron Nanoclusters
11/18/2024
Nathan Bessen
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Actinide Separations in the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Spring 2025
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
Title
01/13/2025
Franklin Leach
University of Georgia
Enabling Technologies and Approaches to Democratize Access to High Performance Mass Spectrometry
02/03/2025
Shaowei Li
Univ. of CA San Diego
On-Demand Control of Single-Molecule Chemistry Through Vibrational Characterization and Manipulation
02/10/2025
Qiaowan Chang
Washington State University
Mechanistic Understanding of Electrocatalytic Reactions: From Electrocatalysts to In-situ Characterization
02/24/25
Anjali Sharma
Washington State University
Dendrimer Nanomedicines for Unmet Clinical Needs
03/03/2025
Tanya Parish
Seattle Children’s Research Institute
Targeting Essential Processes to Discover Novel Tuberculosis Drugs
03/17/2025
Chrys Wesdemiotis
Univ. of Akron
Mass Spectrometry Advances for the Characterization and Imaging of Polymeric Materials
03/24/2025
Laura Motta
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Isotope Effects: Nature’s Guide to Chemistry
03/31/2025
Matthew Asmussen
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Unravelling the Complicated Story of Technetium Speciation in Hanford Wastes and its Relevancy to Disposal
04/3/2025
Nicolas Dacheux
University Montpellier
Model Compounds of Interest for the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: From Synthesis to Properties in Use
04/7/2025
Ying Bao
Western Washington Univ.
Morphology Control of Plasmonic Nanomaterial
04/14/2025
David Powers
Texas A&M Univ.
Reimagining Synthetic Tractability with Transparent Crystalline Flasks
04/21/2025
Justin Walensky
Univ. of Missouri
Cooperative Chemistry in Small Molecule Activation with Actinide Complexes