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6th Annual Women of Excellence Lecture & Reception
April 6
4:00pm, Trabant University Center Multipurpose Room A – UD Campus
“Perspectives on Opportunities and Challenges in Technical Fields: Women in Biomedical Careers”
Guest Speaker: Dr. Vivian Pinn
Held in honor of women graduate students at the University of Delaware
Reception Following
Sponsored by the Commission on the Status of Women
For more information, call 831-8063 or email Dana Brittingham at dbritt@udel.edu
April 5
4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab, UD Campus
"Structural Characterization of Peptides, Polymer Blends, and Guest-Host Systems by High-Resolution, Solid-State NMR"
Professor Terry Gullion
Host: Tatyana Polenova
April 12
130 Sharp Hall, UD Campus
Colloquim
"Wilhelm Homberg and the Chymistry of Light at the Parisian Academy of Sciences around 1700"
Professor Lawrence M. Principe
Host: Burnaby Munson
April 19
4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab, UD Campus
"NMR Studies of Electrochemical Systems Cecil Dybowski"
Professor Jeffrey A. Reimer
Host: Cecil Dybowski
http://www.udel.edu/chem/seminar/bseminarspeakers.pdf
April 3
4:00, 210 Brown Lab, UD Campus
"Towards understanding the basis for the reactivity of a plastic explosive degrading enzyme"
Professor Anne-Frances Miller
Host: Eugene Mueller
April 10
4:00, 210 Brown Lab, UD Campus
Dr. Adrian R. Ferre-D'Amare
Host: Eugene Mueller
April 17
4:00, 210 Brown Lab, UD Campus
"Control of mRNA stability by metabolite-sensing RNAs Eugene Mueller"
Professor Wade C. Winkler
Host: Eugene Mueller
April 24
4:00, 210 Brown Lab, UD Campus
"The end of the Victorian age in protein folding or why the molecular chaperone concept is a red herring"
Dr. Jonathan Trent
Host: Joel Schneider
http://cgi.bisc.udel.edu/cgi-bin/cals/calendar.pl?calendar=deptcal
April 5
4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall, UD Campus
"Protein Kinase A in Human Cancer: Isozyme Switching Eliciting Tumor Reversion"Dr. Yoon Cho-Chung, National Cancer Institute, Head, Cellular Biochemistry Section
Host: Eric Kmiec
April 12
4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall, UD Campus
"Functional Analysis of Human Beta Defensin-1 in Prostate Cancer"
Dr. Carlton D. Donald, Assistant Professor Pathology & Laboratory Medicine - Medical University of South Carolina
Host: Carlton Coope
April 19
4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall, UD Campus
"L1cam, ERM Proteins and Dynamic Regulation of Axonal Branching"
Dr. Vance Lemmon, Professor, Basic Science Research Laboratories - Lois Pope LIFE Center, University of Miami
Host: Deni Galileo
April 26
4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall, UD Campus
"Turning Calcium Signals On and Off in Uterine Smooth Muscle"
Dr. Barbara Sanborn, Professor and Head - Department of Biomedical Sciences
Colorado State University
Host: Victor Fomin
Center for Catalytic Science & Technology Seminars
http://www.che.udel.edu/ccst/Seminars.html#anchor1
April 11
"Estimation of Parameters in Microkinetic Modeling"
10:00am, 240 Colburn Lab
Professor Bengt Andersson, Chalmers University of Technology
April 13
10:00am, 366 Colburn Lab
"CFD of Multiphase Flow"
Professor Bengt Andersson, Chalmers University of Technology
April 18
10:00am, 366 Colburn Lab
"Mass and Heat Transfer in Laboratory Reactors"
Professor Bengt Andersson, Chalmers University of Technology
http://www.che.udel.edu/abstracts/seminarschedule.pdf
April 7
10:00am, 102/103 Colburn Lab, UD Campus
"Engineering Education in 2015 (Or Sooner)"
Dr. Richard M. Felder, Department of Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University
Refreshments are available at 9:45 a.m.
April 21
10:00am, 102/103 Colburn Lab, UD Campus
Dr. Jacqueline V. Shanks, Dept. of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Iowa State University
"Phytochemical Engineering - Combining Chemical Reaction Engineering with Plant Science"
Refreshments are available at 9:45am
April 28
10:00am, 102/103 Colburn Lab, UD Campus
"Dynamic Monte Carlo Simulation of Polymer Melt Rheology"
Dr. John R. Dorgan, Chemical Engineering Department, Colorado School of Mines
Refreshments are available at 9:45 a.m.
Chemistry-Biology Interface Seminars
April 11
12:30pm - 1:30pm, 210 Brown Lab, UD Campus
Research Area: Functional Materials Aspects of Polymers, Cells and Biomolecules, Especially Membranes and Interfaces
Dr. Dennis E. Discher, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
April 25
12:30pm - 1:30pm, 210 Brown Lab, UD Campus
Research Area: Adaptation of Osteoblasts to Mechanical Stimulation
Dr. Randall L. Duncan, Department of Biological Sciences - University of Delaware
http://www.udel.edu/chem/seminar/i_oseminarspeakers.pdf
April 14
4:00pm, 130 Sharp Hall, UD Campus
Colloquium
Professor Joseph Fox
Host: Charles Riordan
April 21
4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab, UD Campus
Professor David Goldberg
Host: Charles Riordan
http://www.ocean.udel.edu/seminars/
April 4
4:00 pm - 5:00pm, 202 Cannon Lab, Lewes via ITV 206 Robinson Hall, UD Campus
(Carbon cycling in soils)
Dr. Kyungsoo Yoo, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Plant and Soil Sciences - University of Delaware
Host: William Ullman
April 11
4:00 pm - 5:00pm, 202 Cannon Lab, Lewes via ITV 206 Robinson Hall, UD Campus
(Environmental history of Chesapeake Bay)
Dr. Grace S. Brush, Professor, Geography & Environmental Engineering - Johns Hopkins University Host: John Gallagher
April 18
4:00 pm - 5:00pm, 202 Cannon Lab, Lewes via ITV 206 Robinson Hall, UD Campus
(Antarctic research)
Dr. Jim McClintock, Department of Biology - University of Alabama-Birmingham
Host: Adam Marsh
April 25
4:00 pm - 5:00pm, 202 Cannon Lab, Lewes via ITV 206 Robinson Hall, UD Campus
(Paleolimnology-isotopic proxies)
Dr. Emi Ito, Director, Limnological Research Center, University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics
Association of Women Geoscientists, Distinguished Lecturer - University of Minnesota
Host: William Ullman
Materials Science & Engineering Seminars
April 5
10:30-11:30am, 102 Colburn Lab, UD Campus
TBA
Horst Stormer, Columbia
April 26
10:30-11:30am, 102 Colburn Lab, UD Campus
"One-dimensional Semiconducting and Piezoelectric Oxide Nanostructures -
Synthesis, growth mechanisms and potential applications"
Zhong Lin (ZL) Wang , Georgia Institute of Technology
Physical Ocean Science and Engineering
April 7
3:00pm, 206 Robinson Hall/202 Cannon Lab, UD Campus
Tom Rossby, University of Rhode Island
April 14
3:00pm, 206 Robinson Hall/202 Cannon Lab, UD Campus
Jack Puleo, University of Delaware- Civil & Environmental Engineering
April 28
4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab, UD Campus
"Supramolecular Agents that Influence or Sense Biomembrane Structure and Function"
Professor Bradley D. Smith
Host: John Koh
Physics & Astronomy/Bartol Research Institute
April 26
4:00pm, 104 Gore Hall
Colloquium
"Quantum Control of Qubits"
Birgitta Whaley, Department of Chemistry - University of California, Berkeley
April 27
8:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.
Trabant University Center, UD Campus
FRANKLIN INSTITUTE SYMPOSIUM
"Helium nanodroplets: novel finite quantum fluids and a chemical laboratory"
HONORING Giacinto Scoles and J. Peter Toennies Winners of the 2006 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics
The Symposium is free and open to the public. All those interested to attend, please register at:
http://www.physics.udel.edu/~szalewic/FIsymp06 by Monday April 24, 2006.
