In addition to the Chemistry Department’s robust seminar program featuring world class researchers in all areas of chemistry, I have championed a series of seminars on state-of-the-art Chemical Education topics by leading research scientist educators. During the campus visits of these education experts, the Department also arranges time for graduate students and post-docs, and sometimes even undergraduates, interested in academic careers, to interact with the guest. The list of seminars I arranged, in reverse chronological order from the present to the founding seminar in the Fall of 2002 is below.
Thursday, April 30, 2015
2:30 PM , Chevron 12B/150
Dr. Kenneth Gibbs
National Cancer Institute
"Inside the Mind of Today's Trainees: Understanding Career Development Among Graduate Students and Postdocs"
Thursday, October 20, 2011
6:30 PM , Chevron 12B/150
Dr. Victor McCrary
JohnsHopkins University
"Leveraging Diversity for Increased Research Funding Opportunities"
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
12:00 PM, Langley 219B
Dr. Isiah Warner
Louisiana State University
"Dr. Isiah Warner’s Diversity Seminar"
Thursday, February 10, 2011
4:00 PM, Chevron Science Center 12A
Jodi Wesemann
American Chemical Society – Washington DC
"Strategies for Broadening Participation and Fostering Excellence in Chemistry"
Thursday, February 18, 2010
4:00 PM, Room TBD
CANCELED
Mr. Samuel Franklin
Pittsburgh Science & Technology Academy
"Dream, Discover, & Design: Pittsburgh's New STEM 6-12 School”
Thursday, September 17, 2009
4:00 PM, BH 157
Prof. Michael Kahlow
University of Wisconsin- River Falls
"Adapting and Implementing an 'Organic First' Curriculum"
Thursday, February 19, 2009
4:00 PM, Chevron Science Center 12A
Prof. David Yaron
Carnegie Mellon University
"What is conceptual learning in chemistry and why should we promote it?"
Thursday, September 25, 2008
4:00 PM, Chevron Science Center 12B
Prof. Cynthia Larive
University of California, Riverside"
Drivers and Roadmaps for Improving the Undergraduate Chemistry Experience"
Thursday, June 5, 2008
4:00 PM, Chevron Science Center 12A
Prof. Jack Simons
University of Utah
"The Roles of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry in the Chemstry Curriculum"
Thursday, September 20, 2007
2:30 PM, Chevron Science Center 12B
Prof. Marin Robinson
Northern Arizona University
"Promoting Research-Related Writing Skills in Upper-Division and Graduate-Level Chemistry Majors"
Thursday, February 15, 2007
2:30 PM, Chevron Science Center 12B
Prof. Michael Golde
University of Pittsburgh
"Building Connections in Chemical Education"
Friday, September 29, 2006
11:00 AM, Chevron Science Center 12B
Prof. Joseph A. Gardella, Jr.
SUNY Buffalo
"Linking research in analytical environmental chemistry to public service-learning in the urban environment: curriculum development and student accomplishments in western New York"
Thursday, January 26, 2006
2:30 PM, Chevron Science Center 12B
Prof. Jack Kampmeier
University of Rochester
"Teaching Organic Chemistry with Peer-Led Team Learning"
Thursday, September 1, 2005
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Prof. Richard N. Zare
Stanford University
"How to Succeed in Research"
Thursday, February 24, 2005
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Prof. Art Ellis
University of Wisconsin
"The ABC's of Nanotechnology: Atoms, Bits, and Civilization"
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
8:00 PM, Room 12
Dr. Yuan T. Lee
President of Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
"University Student of the 21st Century"
Thursday, October 07, 2004
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Dr. Alfred Moye
"Learning Science and Technology: Transforming the way we teach and learn science?"
Thursday, April 08, 2004
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Professor David N. Harpp
McGill University
"Communicating Chemistry - From the Classroom to the Wider Public"
Thursday, October 2, 2003
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Dr. George Purvis
CAChe Group, Fujitsu America, Inc.
"Communicating Chemistry through Visualization: Computer-aided Chemistry Experiments for Teaching Chemistry and Biochemistry"
Tuesday, February 18, 2003
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Professor Ghislain Deslongchamps
University of New Brunswick
"Web-Based Chemistry Flashware: Transparent Teaching and Learning Tools"
Thursday, October 03, 2002
2:30 PM, Room 12
Professor Angelica Stacy
University of California Berkeley
"Thinking About Teaching and Learning"