Foster Colloquium Series

Spring 2024 Seminar Series - Fridays at 2:30 PM in NSC 201

Friday, February 2, 2024

"Forty More Years of Trypto-Fun: From Physical Organic Chemistry to Structural Biology"

Presented by: Robert Phillips, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia

2:30 PM in 201 Natural Sciences Complex; refreshments will be served at 2 PM

Friday, February 9, 2024

"Biomass-based Microporous Carbon Materials for Advanced Water Treatment – Application in the Removal of Pharmaceuticals"

Presented by: Vânia Calisto, Assistant Professor, Coordinator of Analytical Sensors and Applied Eco-Chemistry, Chemistry Department, University of Aveiro & CESAM

2:30 PM in 201 Natural Sciences Complex; refreshments will be served at 2 PM

Friday, February 16, 2024

"Ruminations in Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry by a Grumpy Old Man"

Presented by: Peter T. Wolczanski, George W. and Grace L. Todd Professor, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University

2:30 PM in 201 Natural Sciences Complex; refreshments will be served at 2 PM

Friday, February 23, 2024

Co-hosted with the Chemistry Department's Diversity and Inclusion Committee

"Enabling the Unexpected with Ligands: Methane Activation and More with d10 Metal Centers"

Presented by: Kensha Clark, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Mississippi

2:30 PM in 201 Natural Sciences Complex; refreshments will be served at 2 PM

Friday, March 8, 2024

"Selective, Polymer-imprinted Activated Carbon Composite Adsorbents for Targeted Removal of PFAS in Wastewater"

Presented by: Jessica Ray, Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Washington

2:30 PM in 201 Natural Sciences Complex; refreshments will be served at 2 PM

Friday, April 5, 2024

"H-atom and Hydride Transfer Reactivity of Coordination Complexes with Redox-Active Ligands"

Presented by: Alan F. Heyduk, Professor and Chair, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine

2:30 PM in 201 Natural Sciences Complex; refreshments will be served at 2 PM

Friday, April 12, 2024

"Twists in the Tale: 2D Superlattices for Electrochemistry and Magnetism"

Presented by: Kwabena Bediako, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley

2:30 PM in 201 Natural Sciences Complex; refreshments will be served at 2 PM

Friday, April 26, 2024

"Materials Discovery at Extreme Pressures"

Presented by: James Walsh, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Amherst

2:30 PM in 201 Natural Sciences Complex; refreshments will be served at 2 PM

Friday, May 10, 2024

14th Annual Howard Tieckelmann Memorial Lecture

"Intrinsically Porous Organic Polymers in Sensing and Catalysis"

Presented by Guest Speaker: Timothy M. Swager, John D. MacArthur Professor of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Location: UB Center for the Arts Screening Room

Time: 4:00 PM