Submitted by t3mp0raryus3r on Sun, 03/03/2013 - 19:12
It’s February 28, 2013, and the second-to-last chemistry of the semester. The guest speaker for this week was J. David Carter, Ph.D., the Ceramic Electrochemistry Group Leader of the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. Dr. Carter talked about the potential of fuel cells to supply our energy needs in the future.
Submitted by t3mp0raryus3r on Sun, 02/24/2013 - 18:34
Even though I’m not avidly fond of neuroscience, Natalie King’s seminar presentation somehow piqued my interest in the subject. Natalie is a Ph.D. candidate in neuroscience and is finishing her research in the Department of Physiology & Biophysics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. On February 21, 2013, she visited our campus in person to share the history of and some of the ongoing research on depression.
Submitted by t3mp0raryus3r on Mon, 02/11/2013 - 18:14
After last week’s seminar, it is nice to kick back and listen to a lighter and more generic topic for a change. On February 7, 2013, Darci J. Harland, Ph.D., the Assistant Director of Research at Illinois State University, gave some guidelines for running a successful research project. Dr. Harland is the author of the STEM Student Research Handbook and has twelve years of public school teaching experience.
Submitted by t3mp0raryus3r on Sun, 02/03/2013 - 19:40
I’ve attended difficult topics before, but this last one definitely takes the cake. On January 31, 2013, Michael Hildreth, Ph.D., who’s Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics at University of Notre Dame, was the first speaker this semester to visit our humble chemistry amphitheater in person. He talked about his search for the Higgs field by finding the Higgs boson in order to determine what gives matter mass.
Submitted by t3mp0raryus3r on Sun, 01/27/2013 - 14:11
On January 24, 2013, I attended a chemistry seminar talk given by Martin Mwangi Thuo, Ph.D., who is an adjunct professor at Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya. He is currently a Mary-Fieser postdoctorate fellow in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University. He talked about the methods he used to produce hydrophobic paper and its application in paper-based devices.
Submitted by t3mp0raryus3r on Sun, 01/20/2013 - 13:13
It is a new semester, and a new semester at Andrews University means a new lineup of guest speakers. Our first guest was Paul J. Zak, Ph.D., Professor and Department Chair of Economics and the founding Director of the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies at Claremont Graduate University. Dr. Zak is also Professor of Neurology at Loma Linda University Medical Center and a Senior Researcher at UCLA. At the seminar on January 17, 2013, he talked about some of the studies that he conducted which supported the correlation between oxytocin release and empathy.
Submitted by t3mp0raryus3r on Sun, 12/09/2012 - 10:45
I went to the last chemistry seminar of the semester on December 6, 2012. The speaker was Peter K. W. Ng, a professor in the Department of Food Science & Human Nutrition at Michigan State University. The topic of his presentation was the study of the physiochemical properties of wheat proteins that indicate high-quality grains.
Submitted by t3mp0raryus3r on Mon, 11/05/2012 - 14:50
It is the first day of a new month and what better way to spend it than to attend a very interesting chemistry seminar. On November 1, 2012, Parastoo Hashemi, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at Wayne State University, gave a presentation on the applications of analytical chemistry in neuroscience.
Submitted by t3mp0raryus3r on Sun, 10/28/2012 - 15:27
On October 25, 2012, I went to a seminar presentation given by a guest speaker named Ian Lightcap, Ph.D., who joined the Center for Sustainable Energy located at Notre Dame in May 2012 and is now a senior scientist there. His topic involved incorporating graphene into solar cells and sensors to enhance their performance.
Submitted by t3mp0raryus3r on Sun, 10/14/2012 - 17:22
It was October 11, 2012. It has been a while since my last post, but that day’s seminar presentation was given by Janice Hall Tomasik, Ph.D., who is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Central Michigan University. Her topic involved motivating chemistry students by introducing research-based labs in the curriculum.
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