Colloquium Series Archive

October 5, 2006
"Biological Agents using Electrochemical Immunosensors," by Adam Bange
11:00 am
Tomsich Hall, room 101
Adam Bange from the University of Cincinnati is a Kenyon alumnus.
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October 12, 2006
Off-Campus Research - Summer 2006 : " Data, Results, Research and Fun away from Gambier"
11:10 am
Tomsich Hall, room 101
Chemistry students, Josh Zhang ('07), Katie Wetzel ('07), Laurel Clark ('07), and David Long ('07) will talk about their off-campus research experiences during the summer of 2006.
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October 17, 2006
Dr. Terrence Collins, Director of the Institute for Green Oxidation Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University
11:10 am
Tomsich Hall, room 101
Dr. Terrence Collins, Thomas Lord Professor of Chemistry and Director, Institute for Green Oxidation Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University will present a lecture entitled: "Design, Study and Applications of Green Oxidation Catalysts".
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November 9, 2006
Lecture by Dr. John Pojman
11:10 am
Tomsich Hall, room 101
Dr. John Pojman, from the University of Southern Mississippi, will give a lecture entitled: "How do molecules organize themselves?"
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November 14, 2006
Lecture by Dr. Oliver Steinbock
11:10 am
Tomsich Hall, room 101
Dr. Oliver Steinbock, Florida State University, will be giving a lecture with the title: "Chemical self-organization: What a Petri dish can teach us about our hearts".
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December 7, 2006
"Research Fall 2006: Results and Future Directions"
11:10 am
Tomsich 101
Chemistry students from Chemical Research class (Chemistry 375) will give a recap of their Fall Research projects.
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January 25, 2007
Chemistry Colloquium
11:10 am
Tomsich 101
Professor Matt Yates from the University of Rochester will present a lecture entitled: "Colloidal Engineering and Assembly: New Materials for Sensing, Controlled Release, and Membranes"
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February 1, 2007
Fuels from Sunlight Using Semiconductor Electrodes
11:10 am
Tomsich Hall 101
Nathan Lewis, Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology Semiconductor/liquid contacts provide the best known wet chemical means for converting and storing sunlight into chemical fuels and/or electrical power. Good progress has been made recently in understanding intefacial electron transfer processes, in evaluating the properties of nanoscale, nanostructured metal contacts on semiconductors, in functionalization of certain semiconductor surfaces, including Si and InP, and in the use of nanocrystalline mesoporous materials such as dye-sensitized titania. The presentation will focus on these topics and will highlight the outstanding problems that need to be solved to obtain a viable, inexpensive, practical solar energy conversion device from such systems.
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February 8, 2007
Biochemical research
11:10 am
Tomsich 101
Dr. Kyle Furge from the Van Andel Research Institute will present a lecture titled: "Computational models of biochemical pathways in kidney cancer"
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February 13, 2007
Chemistry & Biochemistry Senior Exercises
7:00 pm
Tomsich 101
Each of the Chemistry and Biochemisry Seniors will be presenting analysis and insightful commentary on recent chemical and biochemical research.
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February 14, 2007
Chemistry & Biochemistry Senior Exercises
7:00 pm
Tomsich 101
Each of the Chemistry and Biochemisry Seniors will be presenting analysis and insightful commentary on recent chemical and biochemical research.
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February 22, 2007
Chemistry lecture
11:10 am
Tomsich 101
Dr. Jamie Cohen from Cornell University
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March 22, 2007
Chemistry lecture
11:10 am
Tomsich 101
Dr. Teddy Asefa from Syracuse University will present a lecture titled: "Design, synthesis, and self-assembly of novel inorganic and organic-inorganic hybrid nanostructured materials".
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April 3, 2007
Chemistry lecture
11:10 am
Tomsich 101
Dr. Gavin Sacks from Cornell University will present a lecture titled: "Green peppers, Band-aids, and Petrol: Exploring Wine Flavor as an Analytical Chemist"
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April 12, 2007
Colloidal Engineering and Assembly
11:10 am
Tomsich Hall, room 101
Professor Matthew Yates from the University of Rochester will give a lecture on: "Colloidal Engineering and Assembly: New Materials for Sensing, Controlled Release, and Membranes".
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April 19, 2007
"Zeptoliter Chemistry: Pattern Formation in Reactive Microemulsions," by Dr. Irving Epstein
11:10 am
Samuel Mather Hall, room 201
Dr. Irving Epstein from Brandeis University will present a lecture titled: "Zeptoliter Chemistry: Pattern Formation in Reactive Microemulsions".
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April 24, 2007
Chemistry lecture
11:10 am
Tomsich 101
Dr. Ken Showalter from West Virginia University
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April 26, 2007
"Minerals, Pigments, and Paints," by Dr. David Atwood
11:10 am
Tomsich Hall, room 101
Dr. David Atwood from the University of Kentucky will present a lecture titled: "Minerals, Pigments, and Paints".
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September 13, 2007
Student Research Presentations
11:10 am
Tomsich Hall, room 101
Students who worked on summer research projects off-campus will share their results and experiences.
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September 27, 2007
"Calcium, Astrocytes and Epilepsy" by Sheryl Hemkin, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
11:10 am
Tomsich Hall 101
Sheryl Hemkin from the Chemistry Department of Kenyon College will present a talk on her research: "Calcium, Astrocytes and Epilepsy" http://chemistry.kenyon.edu/faculty/hemkin.htm
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October 11, 2007
Student Research Fair
11:10 am
Tomsich Hall, room 101
An overview of research opportunities and projects available in the Department of Chemistry.
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October 25, 2007
graduate school information session
12:00 pm
Tomsich 101
GRADUATE SCHOOL in the molecular sciences a discussion with faculty members of the Chemistry Department about selecting schools and programs, preparing for the GRE, applications, funding, and tips for success in graduate school pizza and drinks provided
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November 8, 2007
Thomas B. Rauchfuss lecture on hydrogenase enzymes
11:10 am
Tomsich Hall 101
Professor Thomas B. Rauchfuss of the Chemistry Department of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will discuss his research on understanding hydrogenase enzymes for the production of hydrogen from water. http://chemistry.uiuc.edu/rauch.htm
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February 11, 2008
Senior Exercises
7:00 pm
Tomsich 101
Presentations of research papers by Senior Chemistry and Biochemistry majors.
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February 12, 2008
Senior Exercises
7:00 pm
Tomsich 101
Presentations of research papers by Senior Chemistry and Biochemistry majors.
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February 28, 2008
Materials Chemistry
11:10 am
Tomsich Hall, room 101
Catherine Oertel of the chemistry & biochemistry department at Oberlin College will present a talk on her research addressing historic materials (e.g., organ pipe corrosion): "Carboxylic Acid Corrosion of Lead-Tin Alloys: Applications to Conservation of Historic Organ Pipes".
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March 25, 2008
Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy
11:10 am
Tomsich 101
Dr. Joy Rodgers-Haley of the Air Force Research Lab at the Wright Patteron Air Force Base will lecture on nonlinear optical spectroscopy: "Development of Two-Photon Absorbing Chromophores."
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May 3, 2008
Senior Honors
9:00 am
Tomsich Hall, room 101
Joel Becket '08, will present his Honors project in Chemistry.
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September 18, 2008
"Development of New Palladium Catalysts: False Starts, Pitfalls, and Ultimately Success"
11:00 am
Tomsich 101
A seminar on organometallic chemistry presented by Professor Joseph Schmidt from the University of Toledo.
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October 23, 2008
Entrepreneurial Chemistry
11:00 am
Tomsich 101
Professor Peter Kissinger from Purdue University will present a seminar on Entrepreneurial Chemistry.
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November 6, 2008
Natural Product Based Drugs in Immune Regulation and Cancer Therapeutics
11:00 am
Tomsich 101
A seminar presented by Professor Mo Hunsen of the Kenyon College Chemistry Dept.
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November 13, 2008
"How Big of a Role does Simple Chemistry and Equilibrium Play in Diabetes"
11:10 am
Tomsich 101
A seminar presented by Professor Dana Spence from the Michigan State University.
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December 2, 2008
Dietary Cancer Prevention
11:00 am
Higley Auditorium
"A Berry Good Way to Cut Cancer Risk" presented by Professor Gary Stoner from The Ohio State University.
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January 20, 2009
Energy Applications
11:10 am
Tomsich 101
Professor Jeff Rack from the the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Ohio University will give a presentation entitled: "Photoconversions and Photoisomerizations: Molecular Movements on a Fast Timescale".
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February 23, 2009
Bronze Castings
7:30 pm
Tomsich 101
John Cline '81, is the owner and operator of a foundry in Cincinnati that provides a full range of art bronze casting services. He will be returning to campus to give a talk entitled: "The Art of Bronze Casting and Making a Business of it"
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February 24, 2009
Chemistry, Bronze Casting and Restoration
11:10 am
Tomsich 101
John Cline '81, the owner of Casting Arts and Technology in Cincinnati, will give a presentation about his work with a talk entitled: "Chemistry, Bronze Casting and Restoration". The Moore sculpture in the Science Quad was cleaned and restored by John Cline in the spring of 2008.
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September 15, 2009
Chemistry & Biochemistry Research
11:00 am
Tomsich 101
The Chemistry faculty at Kenyon College will present research in chemistry and biochemistry.
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October 20, 2009
TB or not TB: Lessons learned from a 20-year quality control problem. By Brian Rohrback, President of Informetrix, Inc.
11:00 am
Tomsich 101
If we are not doing anything else today, let's merge analytical chemistry and multivariate statistics to solve a biology problem with clinical value to sort through an epidemiological threat and its socio-economic impact. A typical Kenyon class assignment? - You have one hour; go. Twenty years ago, the Centers for Disease Control wanted to exchange a set of biochemical tests for an instrumented method to diagnose tuberculosis. Their choice was to use HPLC to characterize the cell wall mycolic acids and use the pattern of relative concentrations of these acids to differentiate disease states and thereby speed the processing of what had become an unmanageable backlog. When the first pass on the CDC system was completed a dozen years ago, tuberculosis analysis was being done in less than three days and the error rates had been cut dramatically. Looking back after more than a decade of routine use, there are some general conclusions that impact everything from how we organize experiments to how we interpret results. In short, one sees a laboratory system functioning essentially as a process analyzer in a mission-critical application in a world where the operator has limited skill and experience, but still has to succeed 100% of the time executing a complex analysis. The TB application is filled with insight into the tasks in front of many routine quality control analyses, where the issues of deployment and maintenance are both rate-limiting and success-controlling
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November 10, 2009
Working as a BS Chemist at Battelle
11:00 am
Tomsich 101
Lauren Eiter, a Scientist at Battelle Memorial Institute, will give a presentation about being a BS Chemist working at Battelle.
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February 23, 2010
Detection technologies for H1N1 and toxins.
11:10 am
Hayes Hall, room 109
Professor Suri Iyers from the University of Cincinnati has been invited by the Department of Chemistry to give a talk about developing technologies for detection of H1N1 and toxins.
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March 2, 2010
Functional Structured Materials
11:10 am
Tomsich 101
Professor Javid Rzayev of SUNY Buffalo will be Chemistry's guest speaker.
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March 30, 2010
Turning Light into Energy and Energy into Light
11:10 am
Tomsich Hall, room 101
Professor Stefan Bernhard of Carnegie Mellon University will be Chemistry's guest speaker.
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April 13, 2010
Reflective plastics for solar thermal applications
11:10 am
Tomsich 101
Mr. Mark Schuetz, CEO of Replex Plastics in Mount Vernon, Ohio will be Chemistry's guest speaker.
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April 27, 2010
Synthetic Hemoglobins for Transfusion and Tissue Engineering
11:10 am
Tomsich 101
Professor Andre Palmer of Ohio State University will be Chemistry's guest speaker.
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September 16, 2010
"Graduate school opportunities at the College of Pharmacy at OSU and The Treatment of Parasitic Diseases through Drug Discovery" by Dr. Karl Werbovetz
11:10 am
Tomsich 101
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September 23, 2010
Preparation and Characterization of Cu111 Intermediates in Organocuprate Chemistry by Dr. Craig Ogle, of UNC
11:10 am
Tomsich Hall, room 101
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November 4, 2010
A Metabolomics Approach to Medicinal Plants and Climate Change by Dr. Bryan Hanson of DePauw University
11:10 am
Tomsich Hall, room 101
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November 16, 2010
Identifiying the sources of contaminants in remote ecosystems by Dr. Kimberly Hageman of the University of Otago in New Zealand
11:10 am
Tomsich Hall, room 101
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November 18, 2010
Proteomics Approaches to Investigate Aging of the Immune System by Dr. Rena Robinson of the University of Pittsburgh
11:10 am
Tomsich Hall, room 101
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October 25, 2012
Chemistry Research Colloquium featuring Simon Garcia
11:10 am
Tomsich 101
Molecular control of crystal shape:Exploring a biomimetic strategy for making semiconductormaterials.
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March 19, 2013
Scott Nelson: : "Complex Molecule Synthesis Guided by the Design and Development of Catalytic Asymmetric Reaction Methodology"
11:10 am
Tomsich Hall 101
Scott Nelson is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He will present a talk titled "Complex Molecule Synthesis Guided by the Design and Development of Catalytic Asymmetric Reaction Methodology."
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March 26, 2013
Jeffrey Bartz: "Detecting Cartwheels and Propellers by Velocity-Mapped Ion Imaging"
11:10 am
Tomsich Hall 101
Jeffrey Bartz is a professor at Kalamazoo College.
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April 23, 2013
Research Talk by Vivian Ezeh, Marilyn Yarbrough Dissertation and Teaching Fellowship
11:00 am
Tomsich 101
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