John Carroll University - Chemistry

Fall 2002 Seminar Schedule

Sept. 11

 No Scheduled Seminar
Sept. 18 Prof. Stacey Lowery Bretz, Department of Chemistry, Youngstown State  University: "The Importance of Reflection in Learning Chemistry."
Sept. 25 Prof. Kenneth G. Caulton, Distinguished Professor of Organometallic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University

11:00 am:  "The Shock of the New:  How Science Deals with Amazing Results...and Error."

3:00 pm:  "Olefin Aziridination Catalyzed by Copper Complexes:  Experimental and Computational Studies of Mechanism"
Oct. 2 Prof. Jon Kirchoff, Department of Chemistry, University of Toledo, "Selective Detection Schemes for Targeting Bioanalytes."
Oct. 9 Prof. Berry Lyons, Director, Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University, "Influence of Urbanization on Water Quality."
Oct. 16 Prof. James D. Burgess, Department of Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University, Title:  TBA; Topic:  Analytical Biochemistry
Oct. 23 Prof. Mary Kirchoff, Green Chemistry Institute, American Chemical Society, Green Chemistry.
Oct. 30 Prof. Todd Krauss, Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Nanometer Scale Materials in Biology, Electronics and Photonics:  Why Size Matters.
Nov. 6 Prof. Luke Sweda, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University, Studies of Free Radical Mechanisms.
Nov. 14 JCU Annual Fall Science Undergraduate Research Poster Session, Murphy Room, 7:00 - 8:30 pm.
Nov. 21 Prof. Yuh-Cherng Chai, Department of Chemistry, John Carroll University, The Chemistry of the Sulfhydryl Group: The Role of Cysteine in the Activation of Caspase 3.
Nov. 28 Prof. Mark Snider, Department of Chemistry, The College of Wooster, Thermodynamic Analysis of Enzyme Action: Case Studies of Cytidine Deaminase and Creatine Kinase.
Dec. 4 Dr. Kimberly Musa Specht, University of California, San Francisco, Cell Surface Carbohydrates and Cell Signaling.
Dec. 11 Dr. Kathleen Mandell, University of Illinois, Chicago, Spectroscopic and Thermodynamic Analysis o Nucleic Acids: A Biophysical Analysis of Trinucleotide Repeating DNA.

Schedules from previous semesters:

    Spring 2002 Fall 2001
Spring 2001 Fall 2000 Spring 2000 Fall 1999
Spring 1999 Fall 1998 Spring 1998 Fall 1997

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