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Graduate Seminar Schedule- Fall 2009

All seminars will be held in the Cox Science Center room 318 at 4:30 p.m.

Sep 30  Stefania Impellizzeri

Oct  7  Johny Orbulescu

Oct 14  Revathy Kulasekharan

Oct 21  Mintu Porel

Oct 28  Shipra Gupta

Nov  4  Arghya Barman

Nov 11  Shampa Samanta

Faculty

Research and Teaching Faculty


  • boswell Burjor Captain, Ph.D. (University of South Carolina, 2002)
    Metal Cluster Chemistry, Organometallic Synthesis, Catalysis, X-ray Crystallography
  • boswell T. K. Harris, Ph.D. (University of Mississippi, 1994)
    Mechanistic enzymology, protein engineering, protein NMR, and drug discovery
  • boswell Carl Hoff, Ph.D. (University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1977)
    Inorganic reaction mechanisms, homogeneous catalysis, nitrogen fixation
  • boswell Angel Kaifer, Ph.D. (University of Puerto Rico, 1984)
    Electrochemistry, supramolecular chemistry, functionalized dendrimers
  • boswell Roger LeBlanc, Ph.D. (University Laval, 1964)
    Molecular recognition, surface chemistry and spectroscopy
  • boswell Nita Lewis, Ph.D. (University of Guelph, 1977)
    Nanochemistry, bioinorganic chemistry, high pressure kinetics and mechanisms
  • boswell Rajeev Prabhakar, Ph.D. (Stockholm University, 2003)
    Computational chemistry, enzyme catalyzed reactions, neurodegenerative disorders and drug designing
  • boswell William Purcell, Ph.D. (University of Nebraska, 1973)
    Inorganic chemistry, development of new experiments for freshman and inorganic
  • boswell V. Ramamurthy, Ph.D. (University of Hawaii, Honolulu, 1974)
    Organic photochemistry, solid-state chemistry, supramolecular chemistry
  • boswell Françisco M. Raymo, Ph.D. (University of Birmingham, UK, 1996)
    Luminescent probes, photochromic switches, quantum dots
  • boswell Norito Takenaka, Ph.D. (University of Chicago, 2002)
    Organic synthesis, asymmetric catalysis, natural products
  • boswell Jamie D. Walls, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley, 2003)
    Developing new theory and methodology for NMR and MRI; Nonlinear quantum mechanics; Spintronics.
  • boswell James N. Wilson, Ph.D. (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004)
    Conjugated Polymers, Novel Fluorophores, Fluorescence Based Detection Schemes, and Organic Materials.

Senior Lecturers


  • boswell Barbara Colonna, Ph.D. (University of Birmingham/UCLA, 1999)
    Organic Chemistry I and II, honors organic chemistry;area of interest: regulation of carbohydrate based derivatives for drug delivery systems
  • boswell Tegan Eve, Ph.D. (UCSD, 2001)
    Undergraduate laboratory operations, lab instructor training, green chemistry


  • boswell Douglas Heller, Ph.D. (University of Chicago, 1996)
    Organic Chemistry I and II. PRISM General Chemistry I and II. Chemistry for non-science majors.
    Interests: Science Writing and Communication. Forensic Chemistry.

Lecturers


  • boswell Thomas Berg, Ph.D. (University of Iowa, 1982)
    General chemistry I and II, life science chemistry I and II, and organic chemistry I