Department of Chemistry

September 8, 2011, 4:30 PM
Mostafa A. El-Sayed, PhD, Julius Brown Chair and Regents Professor,
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.
Lecture Title: "Gold Nanoparticles Can Destroy Cancer Cells in More Than One Way: How, What, and Why?"
Campus Host: Clemens Burda. Sponsor: Case Western Reserve University.

November 3, 2011, 4:30 PM
Vicki L. Colvin, PhD, Kenneth S. Pitzer-Schlumberger Professor of Chemistry; Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, TX.
Lecture Title: "How to Make, Assess and Evaluate Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications"
Campus Host: Thomas Gray. Sponsor: NASA.

November 10, 2011, 4:30 PM
Moungi G. Bawendi, PhD, Lester Wolfe Professor in Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
Lecture Title: "Semiconductor Nanocrystals in Biological and Biomedical Applications"
Campus Host: Clemens Burda. Sponsor: BASF.

November 17, 2011, 4:30 PM
Shana O. Kelley, PhD, Director, Division of Biomolecular Sciences; Faculty of Pharmacy,
Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Lecture Title: "Sensing and Self-Assembly with Hierarchical Nanomaterials"
Campus Host: Anna Samia. Sponsor: Innovation Chemical Technologies.

February 2, 2012, 11:30 AM
Scott J. Miller, PhD, Irene du Pont Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Lecture Title: "Natural Products, Synthetic Catalysts, Unnatural Products"
Campus Host: Rajesh Viswanathan. Sponsor: Energizer.

March 8, 2012, 3:00 PM
Phil S. Baran, PhD, Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA.
Lecture Title: "Studies in Natural Product Synthesis"
Campus Host: Gregory Tochtrop. Sponsor: Lubrizol.

March 22, 2012, 4:30 PM
Jeffrey D. Winkler, PhD, Merriam Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Lecture Title: "Synthesis of Natural and Unnatural Products"
Campus Host: Anthony Pearson. Sponsor: Case Western Reserve University.

April 19, 2012, 4:30 PM
Robert H. Grubbs, PhD, Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.
Lecture Title: "Synthesis of Molecules and Materials Using Olefin Metathesis Catalysts"
Campus Host: Brian Werry. Sponsor: CWRU Chemistry Graduate Students