Chemistry Seminars, News, and Events
Research Seminars
Seminars are held on Thursdays for dates listed below at 5 pm in the Olin LIfe Sciences Building, Room 130 unless otherwise listed. Faculty, students, and the general public are welcome and all chemistry students are strongly encouraged to attend. We hope to see you there.
Seminar dates will be updated throughout the semester.
| Date | Speaker and Topic |
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| August 22 |
Dr. Julia Grimwade, Florida Tech
Welcome back presentation for faculty and students
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| September 12 |
Tyan Laak, Florida Tech
Original Proposal: Removal of heavy metal ions from wastewater by hydrogel composites
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| September 26 |
Dr. Joel Olson, Florida Tech
Chemistry laboratory safety
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| October 10 |
Dr. Manoj K. Manna, Illinois Institute of Technology
Unravelling Triplet Energy Flow in Organic Donor-Acceptor Dyad & Application for Triplet-Triplet Annihilation Photon Upconversion
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| October 17 |
Dr. Ralph N. Salvatore, Southeastern University
Therapeutics through synthesis: Approaches toward HIV/AIDS antivirals, Parkinson’s disease metabolites and anticancer agents
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| November 7 |
Megan Sterling, Florida Tech
Original Proposal: A new diagnostic approach to chronic regional pain syndrome
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November 15
3 pm, OLS 201
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Dr. Sameh Elsaidi, DOE-National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)
Task-Specific Porous Materials and Membranes: From Academic Laboratory to the Commercial Marketplace
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| December 5 |
Pierpaolo Morgante, Florida Tech
Original Research Proposal: Understanding Mayr’s electrophilicity and nucleophilicity scales with a computational approach
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2019 Chemistry Conclave
Florida Institute of Technology's ACS Student Chapter recently hosted the Florida American Chemical Society 2019 Symposium for Synthetic Chemistry. This symposium is part of the Annual Florida Chemistry Conclave series. The Symposium featured keynote speaker Dr. Aaron Aponick from the University of Florida (pictured left). His seminar, StackPhos: From structural curiosity to enantioselective catalysis, followed the synthetic chemistry theme of the symposium. Students gave oral presentations of their research as well.
The event included hands-on demonstrations of outreach events performed by ACS student chapters at Florida Tech and other schools (pictured right) followed by a lab safety, seminar by Florida Tech's Dr. Joel Olson. If your ACS student chapter is interested in presenting an outreach demonstration, please email Ryan Bryant (rbryant2017@my.fit.edu) to reserve a lab bench or a fume hood. Students will also have the opportunity to present their current research. If you would like to present your research, please email our Chapter President, Audrey Preston (apreston2016@my.fit.edu). Visit the Chemistry Conclave website and their pages on Instagram and Facebook for more information about the event.
Chemistry Alumni and Friends
Read about the latest activities and accomplishments of our faculty, students, and alumni/ae in the 2017 Panther Chemist Newsletter.
Previous editions:
2015 Panther Chemist Newsletter
2013 Panther Chemist Newsletter
2009 Panther Chemist Newsletter
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Graduate Student Cummulative Exams
Cummulative exams for Chemistry graduate studentsare conducted on the following dates during the academic year. Email Dr. Norito Takenaka to select the exam's discipline (physical, organic, biochemistry, analytical, or inorganic).
| Fall 2019 | Spring 2020 |
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| Sept 10 |
Jan 21
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| Oct 1 |
Feb 18
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| Nov 5 |
Mar 24
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| Dec 3 |
Apr 14
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New Graduate Student Research Presentations
New graduate students are required to attend research presentations each Tuesday evening from 6 to 7 pm in room OPS 202 (2nd floor conference room), according to the schedule below..
| Date | Faculty Presenters |
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| Sept 10 |
Chouinard & Nesnas |
| Sept 17 |
Pathirathna & Usselman
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| Sept 24 |
Olson
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| October 1 |
Peverati & Wehmschulte
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| October 8 |
none scheduled
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| October 15 |
Fall Break |
| October 22 |
Schoedel |
| October 29 |
Takenaka & Akhremitchev |
| November 5 |
Brown & Knight |
