Seminars are held on Mondays at 4:00 pm in Room 451 Benton Hall, unless otherwise specified. Refreshments 15 minutes prior to seminar time. Seminars are typically attended by faculty, postdocs, and graduate students from all divisions, as well as undergraduate chemistry majors in their senior year.
| Monday, January 13 |
Dr. Bruce Fegley, Washington University, St Louis, MO Chemistry of Volcanic Eruptions on Jupiter's Satellite Io | Host: J. O'Brien |
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Monday, |
Dr. Martin Luther King Holiday | |
| Monday, January 27 |
Dr. Timothy C. Steimle, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Zeeman and Stark Spectroscopic Studies of Transition Metal Containing Radicals | Host: J. O'Brien |
| Monday, February 3 |
Dr. C. Michael Greenlief, University of Missouri-Columbia Attachment of Organic Molecules at Semiconductor Interfaces | Host: Z. Xu |
| Monday, February 10 |
Dr. Amy Walker, Washington University, St Louis, MO Controlling Metallic Contacts to Self-assembled Monolayers and Molecular Electronic Devices | Host: K. Stine |
| Monday, February 17 |
Dr. Thomas A. Holme, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WIComputer Use and Chemistry Student Learning | Host: H. Harris |
| Friday,*** February 21 Begins at 1:00 pm |
Dr. William Shiang, Dow Chemical, Midland, MI Cost Effective Production of Agrochemicals: How to Satisfy the Needs of Farmers, Industry, and the Environment | Host: C. Spilling |
| Monday, February 24 |
Dr. Thomas E. Bitterwolf, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID Chemistry and Photochemistry of Iron SulfurTetrahedranes | Host: L. Barton |
| Monday, March 3 *CANCELLED* |
Dr. Nancy C. Horton , University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Sequence Selectivity and Degeneracy in a DNA Binding Enzyme | Host: C. Dupureur |
| Monday, March 10 |
Dr. Robert J. Stanley, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA Light Driven DNA Repair in Real Time | Host: D. Becker |
| Monday, March 17 Room 102 Benton |
Robert W. Murray Lecture Professor T. Don Tilley-University of California, Berkeley Zirconocene-Coupling Routes to Macrocycles, Oligomers, Polymers and Conducting Polymers | Host: L. Barton |
| Thursday,*** March 20 Begins at 4:00 pm |
Dr. John J. Stezowski, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE Chemistry on the Nanoscale: From Solid-State Photochemical Reactions to Molecular & Chiral Recognition Studies with Crystalline Supramolecular Complexes | Host: G. Anderson |
| Monday, March 24 |
Spring Break | |
| Monday, March 31 |
Dr. James P. Riehl, University of Minnesota-Duluth, MN Luminescence Spectroscopy as a Probe of the Solution Structure and Excited State Energetics of Macrocyclic Lanthanide (III) Complexes | Host: L. Barton |
| Monday, April 7 |
Dr. Charles Sanders, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Tackling Complex Integral Membrane Proteins by Solution NMR | Host: C. Dupureur |
| Monday, April 14 |
Dr. Larry G. Sneddon, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PAThe Design, Synthesis and Applications of Chemical Precursors to Advanced Ceramic Materials | Host: L. Barton |
| Friday,*** April 18 Begins at 1:00 pm |
Dr. Andrew Weller, University of Bath, Bath, UK Transition Metal Fragments Partnered with Weakly Coordinating Monocarborane Anions: Synthesis, Structures and Catalysis | Host: L. Barton |
| Monday, April 21 |
Dr. Eric J. Toone, Duke University, Durham, NC, From Cluster Glycosides to Metal Chelates: Is More Really Better? | Host: A. Demchenko |
| Friday,*** April 25 Begins at 1:00 pm |
Roger N. Beachy, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Controlling gene expression in transgenic plants: Factors, domains, and a cis element that work together to regulate gene expression in vascular tissues | Host: A. Demchenko |
| Monday, April 28 |
Moon H. Nahm, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Cross reactivity of pneumococcal antibodies | Host: A. Demchenko |
| Monday, May 5 |
Distinguished Alumni Lecture Jerry K. Ronecker, Attorney, Husch & Eppenberger, LLC , St. Louis, MO Legal Reactions to Chemistry | Host: L. Barton |
