JMU Chemistry Seminars

Chemistry Department Seminar Series, Summer - Fall 2009

(all seminars are in ISAT 159 at 3:30 pm unless noted)

The Spring/Summer 2009 Seminar Series is now complete
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Fall 2009

date	speaker (Affiliation)	title (Click on Title for Abstract)
Friday, Sept 4	Dr. Barbara A. Reisner Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry James Madison University	My Year Across the Pond: Science and Life in Cambridge
Friday, Sept 11	Dr. Benben Song Center for Advanced Drug Research SRI International	Studying antibiotic resistance at the interface of chemistry and biology: Design short structured peptides using non-covalent constraints
Friday, Sept 18	Dr. Kathryn A. Layman Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry James Madison University	CO Adsorption and Reactivity on Hydrated Ru Catalysts
Friday, Sept 25	Dr. Brooks Pate Center for Chemistry of the Universe Department of Chemistry University of Virginia	Chemistry in the Interstellar Medium
Friday, Oct 2 Refreshments @ 3:15pm Seminar @ 3:30pm	Dr. B. Scott Williams Joint Science Department Claremont Colleges	Platinum as a Matchmaker: Investigations of how transition metals catalyze carbon-carbon bond formation and how carbon hybridization affects coupling rates
Wednesday, Oct 7 Memorial Hall 6110 7:30 pm	Dr. Carloline P. Lubert Department of Mathematics and Statistics James Madison University	MADISON SCHOLAR LECTURE Acoustics, Aeronautics and the Atmosphere Light refreshments @ 7pm, Seminar @ 7:30pm
~~Friday, Oct 9~~ (Cancelled)	Dr. Brian H. Augustine Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry James Madison University	~~A Tale of Two Countries: Science Education in the New South Africa~~ (Cancelled due to scheduling conflict. To be rescheduled.)
Friday, Oct 16	Jake Venzie, JMU '00 Savannah River National Laboratories Fred Kinder, JMU '84 Novartis Kathryn Zimmermann, JMU '07 Air Pollution Research Center University of California, Riverside	JMU Homecoming Alumni roundtable!
Wednesday, Oct 21 HHS Rm. 1302 7:00 pm	Dr. Jay Labov National Academies/National Research Council Center for Education	JMU College of Science and Mathematics presents: Teaching and Communicating Controversial Topics in Science: Ongoing Challenges & Opportunities
Friday, Oct 23	Dr. Marin Robinson Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Northern Arizona University	Wood smoke from prescribed burns: Impacts on health and the environment
Also on Friday Oct 23	VA section of the ACS meeting at Bridgewater College; Robert Blackledge* is the speaker.*	(At Bridgewater College) The Floyd Landis Sports Doping Case as Evaluated by a Forensic Chemist
Monday, Nov 2	JMU Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty Candidate	Faculty Candidate Presentation 3:30 pm - Phys/Chem 2212
Friday, Nov 6	JMU Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty Candidate	Faculty Candidate Presentation 3:30 pm - ISAT 159
Tuesday, Nov 10	JMU Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty Candidate	Faculty Candidate Presentation 4:00 pm - HHS 2210
Thursday, Nov 12	JMU Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty Candidate	Faculty Candidate Presentation 3:30 pm - ISAT 350
Monday, Nov 16	JMU Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty Candidate	Faculty Candidate Presentation 3:30 pm - ISAT 259
Monday Nov 23 - Friday Nov 27	Thanksgiving Break
Tuesday, Dec 1	JMU Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty Candidate	Faculty Candidate Presentation 3:30 pm - ISAT 259

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