Department Seminars (Fall 2024–Spring 2025) 

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

DateSpeakerAffiliationTitle
08/19/2024Jeffrey BellWashington State UniversityFunctional 3D Printing and Magnetoelectrochemistry for Electroanalysis
08/26/2024Mario WriedtUT DallasCrystal Engineering of Programmable Sponges for Energy, Environmental and Medicinal Applications
09/09/2024Keith SearlesUniversity of FloridaLeveraging Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Chemistry in the Catalytic Conversion of Hydrocarbon Substrates
10/07/2024Abhijit DateUniversity of ArizonaNano-scale Ionic Liquids (NAILs) to Augment the Delivery of Drugs with Poor Solubility and/or Permeability
10/14/2024Michel SassiPacific Northwest National LaboratoryThe Physical and Chemical Consequences of Radioactive Transmutation
10/21/2024Rana RaisJohns Hopkins UniversityEnhancing Pharmacokinetics of nSMase2 Inhibitors via Prodrugs and Dendrimer Nanoparticle Delivery Systems
11/04/2024Wanlu LiUniv. of CA San Diego (UCSD)Lanthanide/Actinide-Doped Boron Nanoclusters
11/18/2024Nathan BessenPacific Northwest National LaboratoryActinide Separations in the Nuclear Fuel Cycle

Spring 2025

DateSpeakerAffiliationTitle
01/13/2025Franklin LeachUniversity of GeorgiaEnabling Technologies and Approaches to Democratize Access to High Performance Mass Spectrometry
02/03/2025Shaowei LiUniv. of CA San DiegoOn-Demand Control of Single-Molecule Chemistry Through Vibrational Characterization and Manipulation
02/10/2025Qiaowan ChangWashington State UniversityMechanistic Understanding of Electrocatalytic Reactions: From Electrocatalysts to In-situ Characterization
02/24/25Anjali SharmaWashington State UniversityDendrimer Nanomedicines for Unmet Clinical Needs
03/03/2025Tanya ParishSeattle Children’s Research InstituteTargeting Essential Processes to Discover Novel Tuberculosis Drugs
03/17/2025Chrys WesdemiotisUniv. of AkronMass Spectrometry Advances for the Characterization and Imaging of Polymeric Materials
03/24/2025Laura MottaWoods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionIsotope Effects: Nature’s Guide to Chemistry
03/31/2025Matthew AsmussenPacific Northwest National LaboratoryUnravelling the Complicated Story of Technetium Speciation in Hanford Wastes and its Relevancy to Disposal
04/3/2025Nicolas DacheuxUniversity MontpellierModel Compounds of Interest for the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: From Synthesis to Properties in Use
04/7/2025Ying BaoWestern Washington Univ.Morphology Control of Plasmonic Nanomaterial
04/14/2025David PowersTexas A&M Univ.Reimagining Synthetic Tractability with Transparent Crystalline Flasks
04/21/2025Justin WalenskyUniv. of MissouriCooperative Chemistry in Small Molecule Activation with Actinide Complexes