Departmental Seminars

All lectures are in King 4 at 1:05 pm unless indicated otherwise

 

January 22, 2026

Sadish Karunaweera

Kansas State University

Title: Teaching Lab Safety

Host: Dr. Aakeroy

February 19, 2026

Patricia Calvo

Kansas State University

(Abstract)

Title: Polymer Architecture as a Design Tool: Leveraging Branching to Tune Function and Performance

Host: Dr. Aakeroy

March 5, 2026

Austin Evans

University of Florida

(Abstract)

Title: Electrifying Polymer Chemistry: New Strategies to Functionalize, Depolymerize, and Deconstruct Macromolecules

Host: Dr. Calvo

March 26, 2026

 

ACS Spring 2026

April 2, 2026

Anidita Das

Southern Methodist University

(Abstract)

Title: Tuning Atomically Precise Materials for Sustainable Chemistry

Host: Dr. Gadzikwa

April 9, 2026

Melissa Mauer-Jones

University of Minnesota, Duluth

(Abstract)

Title: Fate of Plastics in the Environment: from legacy pollutants to emergent materials

Host: Dr. Higgins

April 16, 2026

Shelley Minteer

Missouri University of Science and Technology

(Abstract)

Title: Transitioning Bioelectrocatalysis from Sensors to Energy Conversion and Electrification of the Chemical Industry

Host: Dr. Jun Li

April 23, 2026

De-en Jiang

Vanderbilt University

(Abstract)

Title: Machine Learning in Chemistry: From Structure Prediction to Ion Dynamics

Host: Dr. Aikens

May 7, 2026

PLU LECTURE

Daniel Schwartz

University of Colorado
(Chem. Biolog. Eng.)

(Abstract)

Title: Molecular Diffusion at Wet Interfaces

Host: PLU