Union College Department of Chemistry

Schenectady, NY 12308


Seminar Schedule, Spring 2011

Please note that all seminars are scheduled for
THURSDAYS at 12:45 PM in Bailey 207
unless otherwise noted. Lunch & soda will be provided!!!

March 31

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


April 7

Experimental Biology practice poster session
WOLD SCIENCE CENTER-Second floor balcony


April 14

ACS National Meeting

Hear about our students' and faculty’s trip to the National American Chemical Society Meeting in Anaheim, CA.


April 21

Dr. Robert Hodges, Union Alum ('56)

“I. The Sciences on Which Climate Change is Based, and II. Climate Change in Our Time”


Friday, April 29

Prof. Danielle Dube, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Bowdoin College

"Chemical tools to discover and target Helicobacter pylori's glycoproteins"
Merck Seminar (Co-sponsored by Chemistry and Biology Depts) OLIN 115


May 5

Dr. Jonathan Reeves, Principle Scientist, Chemical Development, Boehringer-Ingelheim

"Process Development and large Scale Synthesis of a Glucocorticoid Mimetic"


May 12

Steinmetz Symposium

May 19

Paul Castrucci, Union Alum ('56) IBM

"Making Memories IBM's Golden Age from 1965-1990"

OLIN 115


May 20

Chemistry Department Alumni Panel

May 26

Prof. J. William Straus, Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Vassar College

"Phagosome associated proteases in Tetrahymena: Imaging and proteomic approaches"

June 2

Graduate School Panel Discussion

Prof. Laura MacManus-Spencer, Prof. Margot Paulick, Clancy Slack, Michelle Richter


Click here for seminar schedules from previous terms



Please direct any questions about the Chemistry Department seminar schedule to Prof. Margot Paulick (paulickm@union.edu).