University closed – Friday, Jan. 19

Due to the anticipated significant winter storm expected for the Akron area overnight and into tomorrow, all University of Akron campuses will be closed on Friday, Jan. 19.

All classes and labs are canceled.

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Chemistry Seminar Schedule - Fall 2023

All Seminars will be held in MGH 111 on Tuesday at 3:00 PM unless otherwise noted

Speaker Affiliation Title Host
8/29

Zhexi Li

UA

Chemical Safety/Biosafety Seminar

09/05

Li Jia/Chunming Liu

UA Faculty Research Presentations
09/12 Ivan Popov/Yilin Liu/David Modarelli UA Faculty Research Presentations
09/19 Christine Thomas Ohio State University Incorporating Metal-Ligand and Metal-Metal Cooperativity into First Row Transition Metal Catalysis Jia
09/26 Selvan Demir Michigan State University New Advances in High-Performance
Single-Molecule Magnets
Popov
10/3

Haiying Liu

Michigan Technology University Near-infrared Ratiometric Fluorescent Probes for Monitoring pH Fluctuations in Live Cells Pang
10/10 EOHS  Location: KNCL loading dock Fire extinguisher training Zhexi Li
10/17 Alexander Sokolov Ohio State University

Harnessing the Power of Perturbation Theory for Accurate Spectroscopic Simulations of Molecules and Materials

Popov

10/24,

CANCELLED

Andy Jorgensen The University of Toledo Climate Change: A fundamental challenge for the future of all who live in our world Donovan
10/31

Michael A. Freitas

Ohio State University Integrative Multi-Omics Approach to Study Molecular Signatures and Epigenetic Reprogramming in Oncogenic Mutants of EZH2

Wesdemiotis

11/7 Hao Shen Kent State University Coronazyme: a modular CISS catalyst responding to external stimuli Chunming Liu
11/14

Prashant K. Jain (Akron ACS Award lecture)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Catalysts Dressed in Light Chunming Liu

11/21,

CANCELLED

Scott Thorgaard

Grand Valley State University TBA Boika

11/28

NO SEMINAR

12/5

Michal Marszewski

University of Toledo Advances in sol-gel synthesis of metal oxides with tailored structure and composition Ziegler