Department of Chemistry
725 21st Street, NW
Corcoran Hall, Room 107
Washington, DC 20052

Phone: (202) 994-6121
Fax: (202) 994-5873
gwchem@gwu.edu


Department Seminar Series - Spring 2012

Corcoran Hall, room 101

All Seminars, except as noted, begin at 3:00 PM on Friday.
Light refreshments are served beginning at 2:45 PM

Jan 27

Ming Zhang [email]
Synthesis of Gold Nanomaterials by Multirate Addition Alkalide Reduction
Graduate Student, Chemistry Department
George Washington University
   

Feb 3

Professor Akbar Montaser  [email]
Fieldable Labs on Earth and in Space
Professor of Chemistry
George Washington University
   

Feb 10

Professor Jack Tossell [email]
Calculation of the Properties of the S3- Anion Radical in Sulfidic Aqueous Solutions and its Interaction with Noble Metal Cations
Chemistry Department
George Washington University
   

Feb 17

Professor Barney Bishop [email]
Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides an Ancient Arm of Immunity
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
George Mason University
   

Feb 23

Professor Javier Vela [email]
Probing the Interface between Molecular Inorganic Chemistry and Nanotechnology: From Graded Nanorods to Biomass Conversion
Department of Chemistry
Iowa State University

9:30-10:30 AM
Corcoran 106

 

 

Feb 24

Bennett Walker [email]
Photonic Ion Sources for the Single-Cell Mass Spectrometry of Microorganisms
Graduate Student, Chemistry Department
George Washington University
   

March 2

Dr. Susan K. Pierce, Ph.D. [email]
Small ripples, big waves: How tiny changes in the BCR trigger BCR activation
Chief, Laboratory of Immunogenetics
NIAID, NIH
   

March 2

Prof. Bassam Z. Shakhashiri

William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair for the Wisconsin Idea at UW‐Madison; Director, Wisconsin Initiative for Science Literacy; 2012 President of the American Chemical Society

STEM Education Seminar & Workshop

Part I: Enlightenment and the Responsibilities of the Enlightened
10:00 am – 11:30 am Corcoran 101

Part II: Workshop: Science is Fun and the Joy of Learning
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Bell 205
   

March 9

Open House: Series of Short Talks by Graduate Students

Deepanjan Bhattacharya, Professor Sadtchenko’s Lab
R. Carl Brothers, Professor Dowd’s Lab
Paula Cantos, Professor Cahill’s Lab
Hilary Melroy, Professor Miller’s Lab
Bennett Walker, Professor Vertes’ Lab

3:00 - 4:30 PM
   

March 9

Canceled

Professor Michael Edidin [email]
The Joys of Aggregation: Clustering of Plasma Membrane Proteins as a Modulator of Receptor/Ligand Interactions and Cell Function
Department of Biology
Johns Hopkins University

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Corcoran 106
   

March 16

No Seminar (Spring Break)
   

March 23

Professor Nancy Thompson [email]
Total Internal Reflection with Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy
Department of Chemistry
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
   

March 30

Professor Sharon Rozovsky [email]
Membrane Targeting, Binding and Deformation by the Epsin N-terminal Homology Domain
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Delaware
   

April 6

Professor Erin Sheets [email]
Life as a lipid: rafts, dynamics and interactions
College of Pharmacy
University of Minnesota, Duluth
   

April 9

Dr. Berkeley Cue [email]
Application of Green Chemistry Principles to the (Re)Design of Drug Manufacturing Processes Illustrated by Pfizer Examples
President, BWC Pharma Consulting, LLC
Board Chair, ACS Green Chemistry Institute

3:30 - 4:30 PM
Corcoran 111
   

April 13

Professor Orkid Coskuner-Weber [email]
Theoretical Studies of Intrinsically Disordered Metalloproteins: Combined Quantum Mechanical and Classical Mechanical Approaches
Department of Chemistry
University of Texas, San Antonio
   

April 20

Maryam Farmand [email]
X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Characterization of
Electrochemical Processes: Space Resolved in Operando Studies on Both the Anode and Cathode in a DMFC & Studying the Reversibility of Multi-Electron Transfer in Fe(VI) Cathodes
Graduate Student, Chemistry Department
George Washington University
   

April 27

Carl Brothers [email]
Design and Synthesis of Novel Antitubercular Agents Targeting
1-deoxy-D-xylulose-5-phosphate Reductoisomerase
Graduate Student, Chemistry Department
George Washington University

Jason Lau [email]
New Molten Domains for the Solar Thermal Electrochemical Production of Energetic Molecules
Graduate Student, Chemistry Department
George Washington University
   

May 4

1st Annual Chemistry Undergraduate Poster Symposium

3:00 - 5:00 PM
Corcoran 106 & 111
   

May 9

Jessica Stolee [email]
Laser Sampling and Analysis of Single Cells and Organelles by Mass Spectrometry
Graduate Student, Chemistry Department
George Washington University

3:00 - 4:00 PM
Corcoran 106

 

Updated 1/20/2012

Tiny Materials Provide a Boost to Batteries

They’re 20,000 times smaller than the thickness of a human hair, but nanomaterials play a big role in the research of Chemistry Professor Michael Wagner, whose work focuses on creating microscopic tubes, rods, particles, and spheres used in everything from batteries to thermoelectric refrigerators. Wagner’s work has resulted in a breakthrough in rapidly charging batteries. A typical lithium ion battery with graphite electrodes can take two hours to charge, but Wagner’s batteries can be recharged much more quickly. Because his batteries contain hollow carbon nanosphere electrodes, a 20 percent charge takes just seven seconds.