Pott College of Science and Engineering Seminars

Spring 2006 Schedule

Date

Speaker

Title

Time/Location

Jan. 12

Dr. Kevin Huang 
(Yale University)

Be Fruitful and Polymerize...
The Peptidyl Transferase Reaction

11:00 AM
ED 1101

Jan. 26

Dr. Laura Schulz
(GE Plastics)

Synthesis of Organic and Water Soluble Cored Dendrimers with Internal Cross-links

11:00 AM
ED 1101

Feb 6

Dr. Paul Schaeffer
(Washington University School of Medicine)

Muscle Plasticity:  Physiology and Mechanisms

10:00 AM
HP 1006

Feb. 7

Dr. Ken Walsh
(Sewanee)

Carbohydrate Analogs:
Synthesis and Applications

11:00 AM
ED 1101

Feb. 9

Dr. Andres Zavaleta
(University of Georgia)

Hexagonal-lattice Receptors for Biomolecules and Metal Ions and Design and Synthesis of Beta Sheet Nucleators

11:00 AM
ED 1101

Feb. 9

Jeff Seyler

Understanding Chemical Reactions Through HOMOs and LUMOs

12:00 PM
ED 1101

Feb. 10

Dr. Donna Folk
(The College of 
William and Mary)

The Evolution of Thermotolerance: 

9:00 AM
HP 1008

Feb. 16

Dr. Dan Dyer  
(Southern Illinois University)

How to do really cool things with organic chemistry and get paid to travel all over the world

4:00 PM
SC 2243

Feb. 17

Mary Simmons

Backyard Metamorphism

12:00 PM
ED 1126

Feb. 17

Dr. Rex Strange
(University of Toledo)

TBA

12:00 PM
HP 1008

Mar. 3

Mark Krahling

Ethanol as Fuel:  Will it Pay?

12:00 PM
ED 1126

Mar. 16

Marlene Shaw

Our Genes:  What Turns Them Off, What Turns Them On

12:00 PM
ED 1101

Mar. 23

Richard Ruhala &
Laura Ruhala

Perspectives on the ExCEEd Teaching Workshop

12:00 PM
ED 1101

Mar. 30

David Ritterskamp

Pascal's Pyramid:  Adding a New Dimension to an Old Favorite

12:00 PM
ED 1101

Apr. 7

Paul Doss

Earth Tides in Evansville

2:00 PM
ED 1101

Apr. 13

Ruben Schweiger

Solar Powered Pump for Third World Applications

12:00 PM
ED 1101

Apr. 20

Tony Maria

A View Beneath Mexico’s Most Active Volcano: Volatiles in Melt Inclusions

12:00 PM
ED 1101

Mary Simmons

Backyard Metamorphism

12:00 PM
ED 1126