BLUE HEN CHEMIST

Number 30 John L. Burmeister, Editor August 2003

UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

COLLOQUIA

FALL 2003

Day / Date Speaker Title Host
Friday 9/12/03 Prof. Robert Fletterick
University of California
-San Francisco
Activation of Nuclear Receptors for
Androgen and Mystery Ligands
Clifford Robinson
robinson@dbi.udel.edu
Monday
10/20/03
Prof. Charles T. Campbell
University of Washington
Adsorption Energies of Metal Atoms
and Hydrocarbons Single Crystal
Surfaces by Calorimetry
Cecil Dybowski
dybowski@chem.udel.edu
Monday
11/10/03
Prof. Kate Scantlebury
University of Delaware
Challenges and Contradictions:
Teaching Chemistry in Urban High Schools
Thomas Beebe
beebe@udel.edu
Wednesday
11/19/03
Prof. Huw Davies
SUNY - Buffalo
TBA John Koh
johnkoh@udel.edu
Wednesday
12/10/03
Prof. Charles Riordan
University of Delaware
Biomimetic and Bioinspired
Coordination Chemistry of Nickel
Charles Riordan
riordan@udel.edu
101 Brown Laboratory
4:00 P.M.

2002-2003 Colloquia and Symposia:

External departmental colloquium speakers included Profs. Daniel Quinn, University of Iowa, Jeffrey Moore, University of Illinois-Urbana, Richard Saykally, University of California-Berkeley, Scott Denmark, University of Illinois -Urbana, and Joel Harris, University of Utah, as well as Dr. Steve Ittel, DuPont Central Research and Development. Internal speakers in the colloquium series included Profs. George Luther (College of Marine Studies, Lewes), Steven Brown, Brian Bahnson, and Andrew Teplyakov.

The 24th East Coast Ion Chemistry Conference, held in BRL 101 on 10/19/02, attracted speakers (ion chemists, aka mass spectroscopists) from Ohio State, UMass, SUNY-Buffalo, USIP, Penn State, Merck, Shering-Plough, and the U of D. Topics included aerosols, electrospray ionization, MALDI, gas phase metal ion chemistry, polymers, and computations.