Union College Department of Chemistry

Schenectady, NY 12308


Seminar Schedule, Spring 2008

Please note that all seminars are scheduled for

THURSDAY at 12:45 PM in Olin, Room 106

unless otherwise noted. Lunch & soda will be provided!!!


April 3

Chemistry Club Organization

Join the Chemistry Department and Chemistry Club to organize and discuss spring term activities.


April 10

Dr. John Hassett, Professor of Chemistry SUNY College of Environmental Science and forestry

“Gasoline Contamination of Wate By Motorboats”


April 17

ACS/EB National Meeting Report, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Middlebury College

Hear about our students' and faculty's trip to the National American Chemicalsociety Meeting in New Orleans and the Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego.


April 24

Dr. Greg Reid, Executive VP, Head of Process & Scale Up, Sai Advantium Pharma, Ltd., Hyderabad, India

“Hot Weather, Bad Roads and Other Obstacles to Chemical Research in India”


May 1

Patrick Hayes,Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University

“Tracking Pharmaceuticals and Toxic Metals at Environmental Interfaces Using Lasers”


May 8

Eric Dimise, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry, Boston College

“Isolation, Structure Elucidation and Biosynthesis of Fuscachelin, a Nonribosomal Peptide Siderophore from Thermobifida fusca”


May 15

Dr. Laura Almstead, Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University School of Medicine

“Identification of Genes Required for Cellular Senescence”


May 22

No Seminar


May 29

Desiree Plata, Graduate Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

“Co-Products of Carbon Nanotube Synthesis: Emerging Contaminants Associated with the Nanomaterial Revolution”


June 5

No SEMINAR


Click here for seminar schedules from previous terms.


Please direct any questions about the Chemistry Department seminar schedule to Prof. Laura MacManus-Spencer (macmanul@union.edu).


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