Visiting Scientists
There are two kinds of seminars sponsored by the chemistry department. The major event of the year is a three-day visit by a distinguished visiting scientist. In addition, there are seminar talks approximately every other week by visiting academic and industrial scientists.Distinguished Visiting Scientists
The distinguished visiting scientist presents a series of three lectures, beginning at the basic level and each building on the last, so that students can come to understand what the visitor does and what the significance of the work is.
Richard Schrock
Professor of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Alkylidenes and the Metathesis of Olefins"
Past Visiting Scientists
Year |
Speaker | Topic |
| 2009-2010 | Josef Michl, Professor of Chemistry, University of Colorado | Artificial Surface-Mounted Dipolar Rotors |
| 2008-2009 | Vince Pecoraro, Professor of Chemistry, University of Michigan | Organometallic Chemistry |
| 2007-2008 | Judith Klinman, Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley | Enzymes Can Do Practically Anything... But Do we Know How? |
| 2006-2007 | Peter Stang - Professor of Chemistry, University of Utah | Supramolecular Chemistry and Self-Assembly |
| 2005-2006 | Mario Geysen - Professor of Chemistry, University of Virginia | Combinatorial Chemistry |
| 2004-2005 | Nick Turro - Professor of Chemistry, Columbia University | Molecular Photochemistry |
| 2003-2004 | Dennis Dougherty- Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology | Chemistry on the Brain |
| 2002-2003 | Carolyn Bertozzi - Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley | Carbohydrate Chemistry |
| 2001-2002 | David Hercules '54 - Professor of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University | Mass Spectrometry |
| 2000-2001 | Fraser Stoddart - Professor of Chemistry, UCLA | Supramolecular Chemistry |
| 1999-2000 | John Yates, Jr. '56 - Professor of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh | Surface Chemistry |
| 1998-1999 | John Kuriyan '81 - Professor of Chemistry, Rockefeller University | Protein Structure by X-ray |
| 1997-1998 | Fred Lytle '64 - Professor of Chemistry, Purdue University | Fluorimetry |
| 1996-1997 | Jerrold Meinwald - Professor of Chemistry, Cornell University | Insect Communication |
| 1995-1996 | Harry Gray - Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology | Energy Transfer in Biological Molecules |
| 1992-1993 | Jacqueline Barton - Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology | DNA Interactions with Transition Metals |
| 1991-1992 | Rachel Klevit - Professor of Chemistry, University of Washington | Protein Structure by NMR |
| 1990-1991 | Owen Webster - Senior Research Fellow, DuPont Corporation | Living Polymerizations |
| 1989-1990 | Gregory Petsko - Professor of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Protein Structure by X-ray |
| 1988-1989 | Richard Holm - Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University | Bioinorganic Chemistry |
Recent Chemistry Seminars at Juniata College
The Chemistry Department and the Chemistry Club sponsor many guest lecturers throughout the school year. Here is a list of speakers and their topics from 2009-10:Date |
Speaker |
Institution |
Title |
| Sept 23 | Theodore Dibble | SUNY-ESF, NY | Chemistry and Kinetics of Organic Radicals in the Atmosphere |
October 8 |
J.D. Tovar |
Johns Hopkins | Topological and supramolecular considerations for organic electronics: from unusual aromaticity to bioelectronic nanomaterials |
| Oct 28 | Todd Emrick | U. Mass. | Hydrophilic and Amphiphilic Polymers and Particles: from Therapeutics to Materials Repair |
| November 11 | Gary Weisman | U New Hampshire | Cross-Bridged Tetraamines: Synthesis, Coordination Chemistry, Biomedical Utility, and Conformational Contortions |
| Jan 19 | Charlie Gilman | Scripps Research Inst | Mechanisms of Memory Consolidation in the Fruit Fly |
| Jan 29 | Robert Engel | Queen's Univ. | Balloon and Stars and Combs and Strings, And Other Strange Ionic Things, Like Socks and NAILs and LIPs and Rings |
| Feb
17 |
Rick Parmely | Restek | The Science of GC Capillary Column Selection - Factors That Matter! |
| Mar 17 | Ghezai Musie | University of Texas at San Antonio | Zinc Analogs of Xylose/Glucose Isomerase Mimics |
March 31 |
Nick Tsarevsky | ATRP Solutions | Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP): A Powerful Tool for the Synthesis of Well-Defined Functional Polymers with Controlled Molecular Architectures |
| April 6 | Todsapon Thananathanachon | U of Illinois | Transformations of Sugars Using Inorganic Reagents |
| April 12 | Kevin Welch | Pacific Northwest National Lab | Energy Capture |
| April 20 | Josef Michl | U of Colorado | Artificial Surface-Mounted Dipolar Rotors: Basic Concepts |
| April 21 | Josef Michl | U of Colorado | Artificial Surface-Mounted Dipolar Rotors: Single Rotors - Altitudinal and Azimuthal |
| April 22 | Josef Michl | U of Colorado | Artificial Surface-Mounted Dipolar Rotors: Toward Rotor Arrays |
| April 27 | Charlie Bowerman | U of Rochester | Hydrophobicity vs. Aromaticity: What is the Main Determinant in Peptide Self-Assembly? |
