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Chem 501 Seminars Fall 2025

Time & Location

All seminars are hosted in Buehler 300 at 1PM EST.
Light refreshments will be available at 12:30pm in Buehler 511.

Chemistry Seminar Schedule

Note: Schedule subject to changes.

August 28 – Dr. Gregory Girolami – University of Illinois
“How Strong are M‧‧‧H-C and M‧‧‧H-B Three-Center Interactions?”

September 4 – Dr. Yingwen Cheng – University of Tennessee TENURE SEMINAR
“Materials Design for Advanced Batteries and Electrocatalysis”

September 11 – Dr. Joseph Clark – University of Tennessee TENURE SEMINAR
“Precision Labeling of Small Molecules”

September 18 – Dr. Thanh Do – University of Tennessee TENURE SEMINAR
“Structural Ion Mobility Spectrometry: What Can We Really Measure?”

September 25 – Dr. Robert Gilliard – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
“”Uncommon Bonds in Boron Heterocycles: From Odd-Electron Molecules to Luminescent Materials”

October 2 – Dr. Andy McNally – Colorado State University
“Transforming Azines – Inside and Out”

October 9 – Dr. Adrian Figg – Virginia Tech
“Approaching Acrylic Copolymer Structures Differently”

October 16 – Dr. A. James Link – Princeton University
“Backbone Modifications in Peptide Natural Products”

October 23 – Dr. Yangguang Ou – University of Vermont
“Leveraging Carbon Chemistry to Design and Optimize Electrochemical Biosensors for in situ Neurochemical Quantitation”

November 6 – Dr. Ryan Hadt – California Institute of Technology
“Enabling Molecular Quantum Information Science with Electron Spins”

November 13 – Dr. Marc Porter – University of Utah
“Immunoassays and Disease Diagnostics: It’s About More Than Detection Limits”

November 20 – Dr. Sharon Hammes-Schiffer – Princeton University
“Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Catalysis and Energy Conversion”

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