Chemistry

Seminar Schedule - Spring 2024

Seminars are on Thursdays and Fridays at 3:00pm in Lab Science Commons Room 1211 unless otherwise indicated. Please email chemistry@tntech.edu for more information. 

2/2/24 @3:00pm LSC 1211	Dr. Kirstin Morton	Eastman Chemical Company	Topic:  Eastman:  A Leading Sustainable Innovation Company
2/23/24 @3:00pm LSC 1211	Dr. Eisen Gross	National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)	Topic:  Bringing the SI to Global Greenhouse Gas Monitoring: Pathlengths & Cold Methane
3/1/24 @3:00pm LSC 1211	Dr. Garry Grubbs	Missouri University of Science and Technology (S&T)	Topic:  A Brief, Historical Look at Microwave Spectroscopy and the New Approaches Being Pursued at Missouri S&T
3/22/24 @3:00pm LSC 1211	Dr. Gayan Wijeratne	University of Alabama at Birmingham	Topic:  Investigating Heme Superoxo and Peroxo Mediated Pathways of Heme Enzymes Using Functional Synthetic Mimics
4/4/24 @3:00pm LSC 1211	Muinat Zubair	Tennessee Tech Master's Student	Literature Seminar: Inhibitor of c-Jun N-terminal Protein Kinase (JNK) 2/3 with selectivity over JNK1
4/4/24 @3:00pm LSC 1211	Nolan White	Tennessee Tech Master's Student	Literature Seminar: Probing Dipole-Bound States Using Photodetachment Spectroscopy and Resonant Photoelectron Imaging of Cryogenically Cooled Anions
4/5/24 @3:00pm LSC 1211	Dr. Bikram Subedi	Murray State University	Topic:  Breaking Barriers: Tackling Overdose Crisis & Environmental Challenges
4/11/24 @3:00pm LSC 1211	Randi Kalahe Padikoralage	Tennessee Tech Master's Student	Literature Seminar: Competition between In-Plane vs Above-Plane Configurations of Water with Aromatic Molecules: Non-Covalent Interactions in 1,4-Naphthoquinone-(H2O)1−3 Complexes
4/11/24 @3:00pm LSC 1211	Stephen Awuku	Tennessee Tech Master's Student	Literature Seminar: A New HPLC-DAD for the Concurrent Determination of Hydroquinone, Hydrocortisone Acetate and Tretinoin in Different Pharmaceuticals for the Treatment of Melasma
4/12/24 @3:00pm LSC 1211	Dr. Benjamin Stein	Los Alamos National Lab	Topic:  Characterization of Superoxide Radicals in Uranyl Peroxide
4/15/24 @3:00pm LSC 1211	Bryanah Hack	Tennessee Tech Master's Student	Thesis Seminar: Utilizing UV-VIS to Detect and Quantify Radiation Present in Environmental Samples
4/18/24 @11:00am LSC1211	Thushitha Jayasekara	Tennessee Tech Master's Student	Literature Seminar: Equilibrium Struture in the Presence of Methyl Internal Rotation: Microwave Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemistry Study of the Two Conformers of 2-Acetylfuran
4/18/24 @3:00pm LSC 1211	Emma Schrider	Tennessee Tech Master's Student	Thesis Seminar: Chemical Fingerprinting of Pepper Sprays Utilizing Gas Chromatography
4/22/24 @3:00pm LSC 1211	Andrew Nguyen	Tennessee Tech Undergraduate Student	Distinction in Chemistry Research Seminar: Synthesis of Supramolecular Macrocycle-Dye Conjugates via Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling Reactions
4/24/24	Cadence Miller	Tennessee Tech Undergraduate Student	Distinction in Chemistry Research Seminar: Low Barrier Quantum Tunneling Observed in The Rotational Spectra of cis-3-methylstrene
4/24/24	Marton Varga	Tennessee Tech Undergraduate Student	Distinction in Chemistry Research Seminar: Developing Python Interface and Autonomous Scanning for FTMW Spectrometer
4/25/24	Emmanuel Aimiuwu	Tennessee Tech Master's Student	Literature Seminar: Dearomatization of Pyridines: Stereoselective Synthesis of Functionalized [1,2,4]Triazolo[4,3‑a]pyridines
4/25/24	Ademola Adeoye	Tennessee Tech Master's Student	Literature Seminar: Green Method to Determine Triazine Pesticides in Water Using Rotating Disk Sorptive Extraction (RDSE)
5/2/2024	Victor Jonathan	Tennessee Tech Master's Student	Thesis Seminar:  Progress Towards the Total Enantioselective Synthesis of Hamigeromycin B