Departmental Seminar Series

Our chemistry and physics seminar series usually meets in Room 059 in the Science Building at 11:00 AM on Tuesdays. Students interested in attending graduate school are encouraged to meet with the academic seminar speakers on Tuesday afternoon.

Driving directions to the Department

 

Spring 2024 Seminar Series

Date Speaker
Feb 6 Darby Scism, Associate Director of Career Coaching, Indiana State University Career Center (Homepage)
Feb 20 Elizabeth Goldschmidt, Department of Physics, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign and Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology Center (IQUIST), "Quantum Information with Photons" (Homepage)
Mar 5, 4:00 pm S-012 Stephen Sligar, Department of Biohemistry, Department of Chemistry, School of Molecular & Cellular Biology, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, "Revealing the Structure and Function of Membrane Proteins through Nanotechnology: Cancer Signaling" (Homepage)
Apr 2 Tim Durham (ISU Chemistry Alumnus), Executive Director of Discovery Chemistry, Eli Lilly & Company (Homepage)

 

Fall 2023 Seminar Series

Date Speaker
Sept 5 Andrew J. Wilson, Department of Chemistry, University of Louisville, "Reducing Ensemble Averaging for Mechanistic Insight in Electrocatalysis" (Homepage)
Sept 12 Arika Palmer (ISU Chemistry Alumna), Superior Industrial Solutions, Indianapolis, "Chemistry in Industry: Quality Control and Research & Development" (Website)
Sept 19 Lawrence Hill, Department of Chemistry, Western Kentucky University, "Chemistry Research Projects at WKU" (Homepage)
Oct 17 Krystiauna Cole (ISU Chemistry Alumna), IU Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis, "Life as a Medical Technologist and Indiana University School of Medicine Graduate Student" (Website)
Oct 24 Herbert Fertig, Department of Physics, Indiana University-Bloomington, "Neutral Modes of Electrons and Their Quantum Geometry" (Homepage)
Oct 31 Amy Lane (ISU Chemistry Alumna), Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of North Florida, "Revealing Bacterial Blueprints for Natural Product Assembly" (Homepage)

 

Spring 2023 Seminar Series

Date Speaker
Jan 24 Michael Beck, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Eastern Illinois University, "Chemical Biology Approaches for Uncovering Interindividual Variability in Drug Metabolism" (Homepage)
Jan 31 Michele Verst, Director of Medical Physics, Hux Cancer Center, "Medical Physics: One of the Most Critical Jobs in Cancer Care that No One Knows About"
Feb 21 Hadiseh Alaeian, Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute, Purdue University, "From Dipolar to Rydberg Photonics" (Homepage)
Apr 18 Yongming Deng, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, IUPUI, "A New Avenue for Single-Electron Chemistry of Aromatic N-oxides in Synthesis and Catalysis" (Homepage)

 

Fall 2022 Seminar Series

Date Speaker
Sept 6 Patrick Bohman (ISU Chemistry Alumnus), Sales Representative for Thermo-Fisher Scientific, "My career in analytical chemistry: What following suggestions has done for me." (Homepage)
Sept 13 Amy VandeVelde and Gina Federighi, Elanco- Clinton, IN (Homepage)
Oct 11 Brittany Morgan, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, "Cracking the Code: Predicting Small Molecule Binding to a Cryptic, Dynamic Protein Pocket." (Homepage)
Oct 25 Nicholas Oberlies, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, "The Fungal Battlefield: A Source for New Chemical Diversity?" (Homepage)
Nov 1 Shixiong Zhang, Department of Physics, Indiana University-Bloomington, "Magnetism in 2D van der Waals Materials" (Homepage)

(Zoom seminar)

 

Spring 2022 Seminar Series

Date Speaker
Jan 25 Wei Shi, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University, "Study of Bioactive Natural Products in Medicine and Biology" (Homepage) 

(Zoom seminar)

Feb 1 Lee Thompson, Department of Chemistry, University of Louisville, "Different Orbitals for Different Configurations: Compact Wavefunction Descriptions for Modeling Excited State Processes" (Homepage)

(In person)

Mar 1 S. Lance Cooper, Department of Physics, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, "Shining Light on Collective Excitations in Strongly Interacting Materials" (Homepage) 

(Zoom seminar)

Apr 5 Julia Laskin, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, "Ambient Imaging of Biological Tissues Using Nanospray Desorption Electrospray Ionization (nano-DESI) Mass Spectrometry" (Homepage) 

(Zoom seminar)

Apr 19 Partha Basu, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, IUPUI, "Complexes of Antipodal Dithione and Dithiolene Ligands: New Chemistry from Old Friends" (Homepage)

(In person)

 

Contact Information
Jennifer Inlow, Chairperson
email:jennifer.inlow@indstate.edu

Department of Chemistry and Physics
600 Chestnut Street
Science Building, Room 035
Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN 47809

Chemistry
Office: Science 035
Phone: 812-237-2239
Fax: 812-237-2232

Physics
Office: Science 165
Phone: 812-237-2239
Fax: 812-237-4396

Office Hours
Monday-Friday
8:00 AM - 4:30 PM

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