Department of Chemistry

Professor Eric Gale, Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard University  “Leveraging the Aqueous Iron Chemistry to Develop Imaging Probes and Drugs” In aqueous solution, iron (Fe) can adopt different oxidation states and […]

Professor Michael D. Schulz, Virginia Tech “Exploring the connections between chelating polymer structure and rare-earth element binding thermodynamics” Rare-earth elements (REEs: La–Lu, Y, and Sc) are integral to modern technology, […]

Professor Donald Hilvert, Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland. “Design can pave the way to fully programmable enzyme catalysts” Biocatalysis is emerging as a key enabling technology for […]

Professor Timothy A. Su, University of California Riverside “Sila-Diamondoids: Atomically Precise Nanoclusters of Crystalline Silicon” This talk will describe the synthesis, derivatization, and quantum transport properties of silicon diamondoids—atomically precise […]

Professor Robert Continetti, University of California San Diego “Transition State Dynamics and Hypervelocity Ice Grain Impact Mass Spectrometry” Review studies using the photodetachment of precursor negative ions to examine the […]

Professor Xue-Bin Wang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory “Probing Structures, Energetics and Reactivities of Anionic Molecules and Clusters Using Cryogenic Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Imaging” Size-selective cryogenic photoelectron spectroscopy (cryoPES) coupled with […]

Professor Brenda Rubenstein, Brown University “Predicting the Relative Populations of Protein Conformations without a Physics Engine Using AlphaFold 2” For decades, the conventional way to predict the different conformations of […]

Professor Masha Kamenetska, Boston University “Recent Developments in Single Molecule Conductance Spectroscopy” Techniques for forming and quantifying electron transport through single molecule-metal junctions have advanced in recent years.  The implications […]