JMU Chemistry Seminars

Chemistry Department Seminar Series Spring 2006

31st ANNUAL SPRING UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM

Thursday April 20 & Friday April 21, 2006

(Departmental Seminars meet in ISAT Room 159 from 3:30 - 5:00 pm unless otherwise noted)
(NOTE: Seminars denotes with a + are joint seminars between the Departments of Chemistry and Physics)

date	speaker (Affiliation)	title (Click on Title for Abstract)
Friday January 13	ACS Sponsored JMU Faculty Research Overview I	Dr. Brian Augustine Dr. Barbara Reisner Dr. Jim Leary Dr. Ben DeGraff Dr. Katy Layman Dr. Tom DeVore Dr. John Gilje
Friday January 20	ACS Student Section Guest Seminar Dr. John Warner Center for Green Chemistry University of Massachusetts-Lowell (MA)	"Green Chemistry at UMass-Lowell"
THURS. January 26 + (ISAT 136 @ 4 pm)	Dr. Douglas Natelson Department of Physics Rice University (TX)	"Single-Molecule Transistors: New Tools for Physics and Physical Chemistry"
Friday January 27	ACS Sponsored JMU Faculty Research Overview II	Dr.Kevin Caran Dr. Kevin Minbiole Dr. Gina MacDonald Dr. Debbie Mohler Dr. Scott Lewis Dr. Rosa Rivera-Hainaj Dr. Dan Downey
Friday February 3	Dr. Ronald Halterman Department of Chemistry University of Oklahoma (OK)	"Thermal Ratcheting and Microscopic Reversibility in Catenanes and Rotaxanes"
Friday February 10	Dr. Charles Chusuei Department of Chemistry Univeristy of Missouri-Rolla (MS)	"Modification of Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes for Use in Fuel Cells"
Friday February 17	Dr. Michael Doyle Department of Chemistry Univeristy of Maryland-College Park (MD)	"New Advances in Catalysis with Dirhodium(II) Compounds"
Friday February 24	Dr. Richard Keiter Department of Chemistry Eastern Illinois University (IL)	"Intramolecular Phosphorous Exchange in Metal Carbonyls: Two Arms are Much Better Than One"
Friday March 10	Spring Break
Friday March 17	Dr. Dale Forrester Senior Scientist United States Postal Inspection Service (DC)	"Chemistry in Forensics: Typical Applications"
Friday March 31 - Saturday April 1	Colonial Academic Alliance Undergraduate Research Conference (Hosted byJames Madison University)
Thursday April 6 - Saturday April 9	NCUR 2006 (University of North Carolina at Ashville)
Thursday April 20 (ISAT 259) Friday April 21 PH/CH 2212 ISAT 159	31st Annual Department of Chemistry Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium Keynote Address: Dr. Carolyn Abitbol (M.D.) (Class of 1967) "The Chemistry of Medicine" Medical Director Pediatric Dialysis University of Miami (FL) School of Medicine

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