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2/13/25 at 4:00pm in Chemistry A101
Dr. William Chuirazzi will give a presentation on some of the work that Idaho National Laboratories are involved with at the Materials and Fuels Complex (MFC). William “Bill” Chuirazzi is a Post Irradiation Examination (PIE) research scientist currently working as the instrument scientist for the ZEISS Xradia 520 Versa X-ray microscope located in the Irradiated […]


2/18/25 at 4:00pm in Chemistry A101
About the Seminar: The Tonks Group at the University of Minnesota is broadly interested in using transition metals in sustainable catalytic applications. The first part of the talk will be focused on oxidative amination reactions with titanium, the 2nd most earth-abundant transition metal. Several years ago our group discovered that Ti imidos (LnTi=NR) can catalyze […]

2/24/25 at 4:00pm in Chemistry A101
About the Seminar: Radical reactions have enjoyed widespread applications in both small molecule and macromolecule synthesis. However, it remains challenging to control the stereochemistry of radical transformations and to discover novel modes of radical catalysis which are not known in either organic chemistry or biochemistry. Combining synthetic chemistry, enzymology and protein engineering, our group advanced […]

2/28/25 at 4:00pm in Chemistry A101
About the Seminar: Hexagonal perovskites share the ABX3 stoichiometry and cation coordination environments of the more widely studied “cubic” perovskite family, but unlike their cubic counterparts, hexagonal perovskites feature face-sharing linkages between metal-centered octahedra. When transition-metal ions occupy these sites there can be sufficient overlap of d-orbitals on neighboring metals to form metal-metal bonds. In […]




3/7/25 at in
Hello Researchers! CSU PASS is excited to announce the 6th annual Postdoc Research Symposium is just around the corner! Join us on March 7th, 2025 for an edifying day of research and conversation. Presenters will compete for lots of sponsored cash prizes! Please see the attached ‘Call for abstracts’ for abstract submission details and deadlines. […]











4/30/25 at 4:00pm in Chemistry A101



Most Recent Past Seminars


2/10/25 at 4:00pm in Chemistry A101
About the Seminar: The Nacsa Group uses electron transfer techniques to address challenges in organic synthesis. Our lab works in two main areas. The first uses electrochemistry to develop new approaches for dehydration reactions, such as the synthesis of amides and esters from carboxylic acids, with an emphasis on catalysis. Dehydrative transformations are workhorse operations […]

2/7/25 at 4:00pm in Chemistry A101
All academic advisors in our department are invited to participate. All faculty interested in advising undergraduate students are encouraged to attend. Learn to navigate these standards and inform your students during advising meetings. Topics will include planned leave, repeat/repair, probation, academic dismissal, among others.

2/6/25 at 3:50pm in Translational Medicine Institute
Led by Brooks Tueting, partner at Patterson + Sheridan Join us for February’s Drink It In at our new location as we dive into the ins and outs of provisional patents. Learn what a provisional patent is, what it actually does, and why it might (or might not) be the right choice for protecting your […]


1/31/25 at 4:00pm in Chemistry A101
About the Speaker: Brett P. Fors was born in Polson, Montana and carried out his undergraduate studies in chemistry at Montana State University (B.S., 2006). He went on to do his Ph.D. (2011) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Professor Stephen L. Buchwald. After his doctoral studies he became an Elings Fellow at the […]

1/30/25 at 4:00pm in Chemistry A101
About the Seminar: The Cushing lab focuses on ultrafast instrumentation science ranging from tabletop X-rays, to entangled photons, to new forms of battery spectroscopy. In this talk, I will briefly introduce our research areas, mentioning the increasingly “null” space explored with entangled photons, and then focus on two of the techniques – tabletop X-ray spectroscopy […]

1/29/25 at 4:00pm in Chemistry A101
About the Seminar: This talk will highlight the development of new platforms for self-collected/stabilized blood (homeRNA), saliva (CandyCollect), and air sampling. We have begun to envision and execute decentralized clinical studies where data from study participants can be collected at timescales and locations that are not possible with traditional in person clinical studies. Ongoing studies […]