Departmental Newsletter
Colloquium Schedule
Fall 2024 Chemistry and Biochemistry Colloquium Series
The Chemistry and Biochemistry Colloquia Series is presented Wednesday afternoons at 3:30 p.m. in McKinley 224 unless otherwise noted.
| Date | Seminar Speaker, Title |
|---|---|
| 02/05 |
Prof. Rebecca Whelan (The University of Kansas), Using Bioanalytical Chemistry to Improve Clinical Outcomes of Ovarian Cancer |
| 02/12 |
Prof. Jeanne Stachowiak (University of Texas-Austin), Intrinsic Disorder as an Organizing Principle for Biological Membranes (*Delivered via Zoom) |
|
02/20 *Thurs. |
Prof. Evan R. Williams (University of California-Berkeley), Overcoming Molecular Complexity One Ion at a Time |
|
02/26 |
Prof. Elijah Schnitzler (Oklahoma State University), Processes that Govern the Direct and Indirect Climate Effects of Carbonaceous Aerosol from Biomass Burning and Plastic Pollution |
|
03/06 *Thurs. |
Prof. Paramjit Arora (New York University), Short Stories in Molecular Recognition of Protein Surfaces and Catalysis of Amide Bonds |
| 03/12 |
Student Talks |
| 03/19 |
Spring Break (No colloquium) |
| 03/26 |
Prof. Gaurav Bhardwaj (University of Washington), AI-Enabled Peptide Design for Diverse Structures and Functions |
|
04/02 |
Prof. Christopher Donald Chouinard (Clemson University), Leveraging High-Resolution Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry Approaches for Improving Analysis of Metabolites, Illicit Drugs, and Environmental Contaminants |
| 04/09 |
Student Talks |
|
04/16 |
Prof. Xiaobo Chen (University of Missouri-Kansas City), Retrieval of Gold with Novel Triazine-Crosslinked Polyethyleneimines |
|
04/23 |
Dr. Douglas Renfrew (Flatiron Institute), Modeling and Design of Sequence Defined Heteropolymers and Structure Function Relationships in Microbial Genomes |
|
04/30 |
Prof. Georgiy Akopov (Rutgers University), Fire, Lightning, and Water: Synthesis and Optical Properties of Intermetallic Halides |
|
05/07 |
Undergraduate Awards |
Watkins Visiting Lecturers
The Watkins Visiting Professorship was created in 1974 by a grant from the Watkins Foundation. E. A. Watkins was vice president of Union National Bank, Wichita, in 1936 when he acquired a small iron foundry and wholesale hardware firm that he built into Watkins, Inc., a major steel fabrication and industrial supply company.
Watkins’ son, E. Leon Watkins, a 1936 WSU alumnus, succeeded his father as president of the firm. After Leon Watkins’ death in 1971, his widow, Roberta, also a WSU alumna, announced that the Watkins’ Foundation Board of Trustees had determined that “the sole project of the foundation shall be the support of the Watkins Visiting Professorship at Wichita State University.” The departments of Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Geology and Physics share the professorship.
|
Dr. Gary Brudvig |
Yale University |
October 8-9, 2002 |
| Drs. Nancy and Jerry Jaax | Kansas State University | April 12, 2002 |
| Mario Capecchi | University of Utah School of Medicine | February 11-13, 2001 |
| Pat Higgins | University of Alabama | March 29-30, 2001 |
| Ahmed H. Zewail | California Institute of Technology | September 26, 2001 |
| Niles Eldredge | American Museum of Natural History | October 8-11, 2001 |
| Michael Gross | Washington University Center for Biomedical and Bioorganic Mass Spectometry | October 23-26, 2001 |
| Alan Feduccia | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Oct. 31-Nov.1, 2001 |
| George Gokel | Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis | Nov. 27-30, 2001 |
| William Rathje | Arizona Garbage Project | March 1, 1999 |
| Inder Verma | Salk Institute | April 1, 1999 |
| Robert Ballard | Institute for Exploration | September 1, 1999 |
| Colleen Cavanaugh | Harvard University | October 1, 1999 |
| Peter Glynn | University of Miami | November 1, 1999 |
| Robert M. Bigsby | Indiana University School of Medicine | March 1, 1998 |
| H. Leon Bradlow | Rockefeller University | March 1, 1998 |
| Theo Colborn | World Wildlife Fund | March 1, 1998 |
| Robert J. Kavlock | National Health & Environmental Effects Research Laboratory | March 1, 1998 |
| Dolores Lamb | Baylor College of Medicine | March 1, 1998 |
| Daniel M. Sheehan | National Center for Toxicological Research | March 1, 1998 |
| Ana M. Soto | Tufts University School of Medicine | March 1, 1998 |
| Frederick S. Vom Saal | University of Missouri | March 1, 1998 |
| Richard Alley | Pennsylvania State University | March 1, 1997 |
| Fred MacKenzie | University of Hawaii | March 1, 1997 |
| Robert Berner | Yale University | April 1, 1997 |
| Daniel B. Botkin | George Mason University | April 1, 1997 |
| Julius Rebek | Scripps Research Institute | November 1, 1997 |
| Robert Ginsburg | University of Miami | December 1, 1997 |
| Luther Williams | National Science Foundation | February 1, 1996 |
| Keith Solomon | University of Guelph | February 1, 1996 |
| Leroy Hood | University of Washington | March 1, 1996 |
| Arnold Arons | University of Washington | April 1, 1996 |
| Shelia Tobias | Author | April 1, 1996 |
| Crow, James F. | University of Wisconsin | January 1, 1995 |
| Hendee, William R. | Medical College of Wisconsin | March 1, 1995 |
| Lipscomb Jr., William | Harvard University | April 1, 1995 |
| Olson, Eric | University of Texas | April 1, 1995 |
| Martin, Yvonne C. | Abbott Laboratories | April 1, 1995 |
| Bakker, Robert | University of Colorado | April 1, 1994 |
| Ratner, Buddy D. | University of Washington | April 1, 1994 |
| Sessler, Jonathon | University of Texas | October 1, 1994 |
| Wolynes, Peter G. | University of Illinois | February 1, 1993 |
| Hubbard, Ruth | Harvard University | March 1, 1993 |
| Simpson, Evan R. | University of Texas | April 1, 1993 |
| Krantz, Allen | Syntex Research, Canada | April 1, 1993 |
| Karplus, Martin | Harvard University | May 1, 1993 |
| Hauptman, Herbert | Medical Foundation of Buffalo | October 1, 1993 |
| Eldredge, Niles | American Museum of Natural History | October 1, 1993 |
| Karger, Barry L. | Northeastern University | November 1, 1993 |